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Quotes by Famous Actors on Motivation & Success

Quotes by Famous Actors on Motivation & Success

Getting ahead in life takes a positive attitude, hard work and hustle. Taking inspiration from the motivational and inspirational quotes below from some of Hollywood’s most famous actors may provide some tips that can be used on a person’s journey to success.

When an individual feels like they are working hard and haven’t achieved what they want in life, it can be helpful to step back and assess the goals they’ve been able to meet. Doing so can also make it easier to see if they are truly working the extra hours required to become successful in the endeavors chosen.

One thing to remember is no one is alone in this pursuit. In the motivational movie on Netflix, “Good Will Hunting,” starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Robin Williams, Damon’s character is trying to find direction in his life. It’s interesting that Damon’s character learned that becoming successful can only be done by continued attempts. This reflects his real life quote on success below, “If you work at something, you get better at it.”

“The Pursuit of Happyness” is another motivational movie on Netflix with a positive message. Starring Will Smith, it’s the story of a struggling salesman who is pursuing a life-changing professional career. Will Smith’s real-life quote below, “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday,” reflects the attitude of Smith’s character in the movie. With this attitude, success becomes inevitable.

Reading and thinking about the motivational quotes given by famous actors below will likely be helpful for anyone pursuing success in their life:

  • “I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they’re actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.” Mila Kunis
  • “I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.” – Dennis Quaid
  • “We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?” – Tom Hanks
  • “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” – Will Smith
  • “I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.” – Bradley Cooper
  • “When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.” – Tom Cruise
  • “Ninety percent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.” – Natalie Portman
  • “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney
  • “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
  • “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
  • “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” – Clint Eastwood
  • “Death is just a part of life, you know? It’s what makes all of life more vibrant. It’s coming whether we want to accept it or not.” – Tessa Thompson
  • “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone
  • “It’s important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.” — Daniel Radcliffe
  • “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
  • “Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.” — Denzel Washington
  • “It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.” – Vin Diesel
  • “If you work at something, you get better at it.” – Matt Damon
  • “Only you and you alone can change your situation. Don’t blame it on anything or anyone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
  • “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” Robert Downey Jr.
  • “Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp
  • “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda
  • “Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante
  • “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson.

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Funny Husband Wife Quotes

Funny Husband Wife Quotes

Good day, guys! I make every effort to offer high-quality content that is relevant to the interests of Ultra Updates readers. Funny quotations and sayings concerning the husband and wife relationship are included in today’s post.

It is stated that after marriage, life becomes more difficult. But that isn’t the case. After marriage, the husband or wife is finally with the person who loves with a pure heart and enjoys themselves:P.

When I was getting married, I was mentally influenced by so many rumours about this wonderful relationship, such as how much sacrifice it entails, and so on. However, in order to build a better and healthier relationship, a couple must consistently enhance their relationship with their partner. When I got married, I understood that having a hilarious companion as a life partner makes life easier to live and makes you more grateful and less complaining.

unny Husband Quotes

  • “In our marriage everything is 50/50. I cook, he eats. I wash, he wears. I shop, he pays!”
  • “Only a widow can say exactly where her husband is.”
  • “My husband and I married for better or worse!! He couldn’t have done better and I couldn’t have done worse!”
  • “Marriage is just fancy a word to adopt an over grown male child who is no longer handled by his parents.”
  • “A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.”
  • “Marriage is a workshop – where the husband works & the wife shops.”
  • “A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”
  • “Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”
  • “Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life!”
  • “My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside.”
  • “My husband says I feed him like he’s a god: every meal is a burnt offering.”
  • “A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!”
  • “My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn’t.”
  • “They say love is blind.. and marriage is an institution. Well, I’m not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.”
  • “A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.”
  • “A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted”
  • “Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven’t been able to find anybody who’ll take what I have to give.”
  • “When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.”
  • “A husband’s last words should always be, OK buy it.”
  • “Husband: I am a grown man, stop mothering me. Also husband: Have you seen my keys? Have you seen my wallet? Where did we park? I don’t have clean underwear”
  • “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker” – Woody Allen
  • “One day my wife’s credit card got stolen.. what a relief it was to find that the thief spends less than my wife!”
  • “I always help my wife out with housework such as washing the dishes and doing the laundry. She washes them, and I let them dry”
  • “My darling, this scenery makes me speechless. Husband: Perfect, we’re setting up tent here.”
  • “Ever since it started snowing my husband is standing in front of the window and watching. If the snow gets much worse, I might let him inside the house”
  • “Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!”
  • “My husband wears the pants in my house.. The ones I pick”
  • “There are two sides in a marriage, one who is always right and the other is called.. the husband”
  • “One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip”
  • “A husband is someone who after taking the trash out gives the impression he’s cleaned the whole house!”

Funny Ex Quotes

  • “Never get jealous when you see your ex with someone else, because our parents taught us to give our used toys to the less fortunate”
  • “My ex updated his status to ‘Standing on the edge of a cliff’ – so I poked him!”
  • “I used to think my ex took my breath away.. then I realised I was just being suffocated by his bulls**t”
  • “I told my ex I felt like killing him and he said I needed professional help. So I hired a hitman”
  • “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others come into our lives and makes us want to leave footprints on their face”
  • “Ran into my ex… so I put it in reverse and hit him again”
  • “I used to be married but I’m better now”
  • “My ex husband is like bad diarrhoea. When I finally think he’s done with crazy stupid crap and relax a bit… there it goes again!”
  • “Oh so your dating my ex? Cool, I’m eating a sandwich.. want those leftovers too?”
  • “I still miss my ex husband.. but my aim is improving”

What’s your Favourite Funny Husband Quotes

Husbands get a lot of fun poked at them but at the end of the day we really love them. They’re our partners, there for us when we need them and generally great guys. Just don’t tell them! Hopefully these quotes will have shown the lighter, funnier side of marriage and living with your husband. Do you have a favourite from our funny husband quotes? Maybe one that you can most relate to or that even your own husband likes. Or one we’ve missed

Funny Wife Quotes

  • “A good husband makes a good wife.”
  • “Well behaved wife rarely make history.”
  • “My husband’s wife is freaking awesome.”“A woman’s apology: I’m sorry but it was your fault.” Funny Husband Wife Quotes Funny Husband Wife Quotes

“I and my wife are happy. At least when we are not together.”

  • “Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years…. then we met.” Funny Wife Memes Quotes Funny Wife Memes Quotes

  • “Your wife won’t start an argument with you, If you’re cleaning.”
  • “We always hold hands, If I let go, she shops.” – Henry Youngman
  • “Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.”
  • “I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes…she hugged me.” Funny Wife Quotes
  • “My husband thinks I’m crazy. But I’m not the one who married me.”
  • “My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.”- Henny Youngman
  • “Wife: I have changed my mind…Husband: Does the new one work???”
  • “Marriage is a workshop, where the husband works and the wife shops.” Husband Wife Funny Quotes Husband Wife Funny Quotes
  • “Wife is scientifically proven to be RIGHT even when they are WRONG.”
  • “Nothing makes a wife more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
  • “My wife’s cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.” – Navjot Sidhu
  • “If your wife wants to learn to drive, don’t stand in her way.”- Sam Levenson
  • “Wife is cute when she is mute and husband is honey when he gives money.” Funny Wife Quotes Images Funny Wife Quotes Images
  • “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.” – Woody Allen
  • “Tell her she’s beautiful instead of HOT she’s your wife not TEMPERATURE.”
  • “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
  • “She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.” – Tommy Manville
  • “I now pronounce you man and wife, you may now change your Facebook status.”
  • “My wife and I always compromise. I admit I am wrong and she agrees with me. :)” Funny Quotes About Wife Funny Quotes About Wife
  • “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • “The happiest marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
  • “Below is a list of ways to win an argument with your wife…………………….empty not found.”
  • “I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “The husband is the HEAD of the family and wife is the NECK that turns the head around!!” Funny Wife Sayings Funny Wife Sayings
  • “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
  • “Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband.”
  • “When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” – Sacha Guitry
  • “If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”- Sigmund Freud
  • “One day my wife’s credit card got stolen.. what a relief it was to find that the thief spends less than my wife!” Funny Quotes On Wife Funny Quotes On Wife
  • “My wife can’t cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “The only animal that a lion is afraid of is his lady lioness. So if you are afraid of your lady, that means you’re a lion.”
  • “When I tried to do a search for marital advise on Google, it tried to finish my sentence for me, just like my wife does.”
  • “I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.” Funny Husband Wife Jokes Funny Husband Wife Jokes
  • “A married man’s honest confession: “I always read my wife’s horoscope to see what kind of day I am going to have…”
  • “My wife told me the other day that I don’t take her to expensive places any more, so I took her to the gas station.”
  • “I look at the moon and it looks really beautiful!.. Then I look at you… and.. I think I’ll look at the moon again?!”
  • “My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”- Socrates
  • “I am a proud wife of an imperfect perfect husband. He is the only one in this world who can tolerate my madness.” Funny Crazy Wife Quotes Funny Crazy Wife Quotes
  • “My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “My wife says I know just how to push all of her buttons. Unfortunately I stll haven’t been able to find the ‘mute’ button.”
  • “When my wife and I fight, I tighten the top of every jar and bottle in the house. Just so I can say “oh yeah, you need me now huh?”
  • “Never criticize your husband’s faults. It may have been those little imperfections which stopped him from getting a better wife.”
  • “Wives are so smart…they will lay on your chest and be like, “Babe have you ever cheated on me?” and wait for your heart to beat fast.” Funny Wife Quotes Humor Funny Wife Quotes Humor
  • “My wife loves me so much, she tries her best to attract me to her. The other day she put on a perfume that smells like a computer.”
  • “I always help my wife out with housework such as washing the dishes and doing the laundry. She washes them, and I let them dry.”
  • “Guys I need your help. I’m in the middle of an argument with my wife and she just told me that I’m right. What the hell do I do next?!”
  • “If a woman says “Do what you want”. Do not do what you want. Stand still, don’t blink, don’t answer, don’t even Breathe. Just play dead.” Funny Husband Wife Marriage Quotes Funny Husband Wife Marriage Quotes
  • “My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.” – Rodney Dangerfield
  • “My wife asked me to pass her the lip balm last night. Not concentrating, I leaned over and passed her the super glue instead. She’s still not speaking to me.”
  • “My wife never gives up. She is so insistent that she entered the wrong password over and over again until she managed to convince the computer that she’s right!”
  • “Newspaper Ad. For sale: Encyclopedia Britannica, complete set of 45 volumes. No longer needed due to getting married. My wife knows everything. $200 Or best offer.”

Quotes From Famous Figures

    • “One of the keys to a successful marriage is separate bathrooms. When he enters my bathroom sometimes I’m like, ‘Why are you in here?’ And he’s like, ‘I live here. Can I enjoy my bathroom too?’” —Michelle Obama
    • “Husband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back up. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.” —Stephanie Ortiz
    • “Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr
    • “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” —Rita Rudner
    1. “You know there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time… Husband!” —Bill Maher
    2. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” —Benjamin Franklin
    3. “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too—for being married so many times.” —Elizabeth Taylor
    4. “Who won in life? Me. Because I got to marry you.” —Chip Gaines
    5. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” —Prince Philip
    6. “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” —Will Ferrell
    1. “A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.” —Dax Shepard
    2. “Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.” —Megan Mullally
    3. “People say, ‘Jeez, it must be hard to stay married in show business.’ I think it’s hard to stay married anywhere, but if you marry the right person, it might work out.” —Tom Hanks
    4. “Make sure you have date night even if it’s once in a blue moon because most of the time you’re just too tired and you’d actually prefer to sleep.” —Chris Hemsworth
    • “I married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.” —Cameron Esposito
    • “I don’t want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad, and if either watches it without the other, they’re dead meat.” ―Mindy Kaling
    • “You go, ‘You make me laugh, you make me smile, you make me feel loved, you make me food.'” —Nikki Glaser recalling Amy Schumer’s wedding vows
  • “I’m just a diaper-changing facility hooked up to a life-support system, but my wife, she’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She’s a human Denny’s all day long … and it never ends for her. She’s the most beautiful Denny’s you’ve ever seen though, I guarantee it.” —Ryan Reynolds
  • “Because I always say, if you’re married for 50 years, and 10 of them are horrible, you’re doing really good!” —Michelle Obama
  • “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.” —Socrates
  • “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.” —Justin Timberlake
  • “I’d like to publicly thank my husband [Dax Shepard] for changing half the diapers in our house. I hope he changes all of mine one day…” —Kristen Bell
  • “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “Being a good husband is like being a standup comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.” — Jerry Seinfeld
  • “Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.” —Mickey Rooney
  • “After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right. So surprisingly we just stopped fighting after that.” —Barack Obama
  • “Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day and remembering to carry the trash out.” —Joyce Brothers
  • “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.” —Anne Bancroft
  • “My wife and I have been married for 21 years, and without a doubt, the hardest times we’ve faced were those times when we hated each other.” —Andy Richter
  • “My wife didn’t take my name, which isn’t weird, but what’s weird is when people think it’s weird, like we’re on a first-name basis anyway.” —Mark Agee
  • “We just like each other. You start there. … I still can’t believe my wife goes out with me. If we were in high school and I was just funny, I’d never have the courage to talk to her.” —Tom Hanks
  • “Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.” —Goldie Hawn
  • “Marriage is like a graph—it has its ups and downs, and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage. If it heads straight down, then you’ve got some problems!” —Dame Julie Andrews
  • “A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.” —Frank Sinatra
  • “Our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives. And you know, we’re just not quitters.” —Will Smith
  • “There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” —Chris Rock
  • “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.” —Winston Churchill
  • “Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song, ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.” —Barack Obama
  • “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” —Erma Bombeck
  • “Only married people can understand how you can be miserable and happy at the same time.” —Chris Rock
  • “We were married for better or worse. I couldn’t have done better and she couldn’t have done worse.” —Henry Youngman
  • “Just found out the wife is writing a book about our honeymoon, called 50 Shades of Just O.K.” —Conan O’Brien
  • “F*ck it…that’s really the attitude that keeps a family together. It’s not ‘We love each other.’ It’s just ‘f*ck it, man.'” —Louis C.K.

Movie and TV Quotes

  1. “Husbands are like wine, they take a long time to mature.” —Donatella in Letters to Juliet
  2. “Marriage is like a tense, unfunny, version of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ Only it doesn’t last 22. It lasts forever.” —Pete in Knocked Up
  3. “Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?” — Kim in The Last Kiss
  4. “Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass.” —Mac MacGuff in Juno

“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.” —Ray on Everybody Loves Raymond

“The first draft of my vows, which I wrote the day after we got engaged, clocked in at around 70 pages.” – Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation

“She’s your lobster. Come on, you guys. It’s a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. You can actually see old lobster couples, walking around their tank, you know, holding claws.” —Phoebe Buffay in Friends

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!   Husband is the HEAD of the family and wife is the NECK that turns the head around!!   My husband has made me laugh. Wiped my tears. Hugged me tight. Watched me succeed. Seen me fail. Cheered me on. Kept me going strong. My husband is a promise from God that I will have a friend forever. Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. – David O. McKay A husband is someone who after taking the trash out gives the impression he’s cleaned the whole house! Never above you. Never below you.

Always beside you. – Walter Winchell You see me at my absolute worst, and you love me anyways. Thank you.   A jealous husband does not doubt his wife, but himself.   My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill   You are more precious than diamonds to me. You have not just a husband but a companion and the best person that I have found in this world. I love you beyond what words can express. – Jake Distill Husbands are like fine wine.

They take time to mature. – Letters to Juliet, the movie. My husband is one of my greatest blessings from God. His love is a gift that I open every day.   I love being my husband’s wife. – Julianna Margulies My husband wears the pants in my house… The ones I pick. My life really began when I married my husband. – Nancy Reagan

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Facebook Profile Pictures (DP)

Facebook Profile Pictures (DP)

Hey Guys! If you’re looking for the Best Captions for your Facebook profile pictures (DP) Then I must say you’re in the right place. Images speak thousands of words but sometimes it needs some text to make it more beautiful and let the world know what you actually feel like about that pic. Writing a good facebook caption for cute profile pics could be the best way to describe the whole story behind the pic in short captions.

Facebook Profile Pictures (DP)

These short captions will get reactions from your followers.

Looking for the Perfect Caption for Your Profile Picture?

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words—and profile pictures are no exception! We call them profile pictures, display pictures (DP), online self-portraits, and avatars. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, many people usually add various captions to them to spice things up. It’s a good thing that there’s an abundant supply of ideas when it comes to short captions. The ideas listed here will help you spice up your social network profile.

Captions for Your FB Display Picture

Spruce up your Facebook DP with these captions.

  • When you look at me, what do you see?
  • Life is full of surprises.
  • I feel good today.
  • If not me, who? If not now, when?
  • Who am I? I have not found the answer yet.
  • To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.
  • I’m saying yes to new adventures.
  • I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
  • It’s a lovely life.
  • Your body hears everything your mind says; stay positive!
  • Let life surprise you.
  • Give me some space.
  • I’m a wonder of wonders.
  • Elegance is a kind of beauty that never fades.
  • I am what I am.
  • All my focus is on the good.
  • Attitude and class will always be my first preference.
  • Be your own kind of beautiful.
  • Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
  • Even the simplest things can be beautiful.
  • There’s no place like home.
  • You don’t know me.
  • You’ll never understand me.
  • Little by little; day by day.
  • Hakuna Matata!
  • If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine.
  • I’m walking on sunshine.
  • Note to self: “Please relax.”
  • Escape the ordinary.
  • I always wear my smile like a sword.
  • I love selfies.
  • Smile, you made it.
  • Stay a mystery; it’s better.
  • It’s the season of emotions!
  • I feel extremely happy.
  • Smile, it confuses people.
  • Life is like a mirror; we get the best results when we smile.
  • Keep the smile on!
  • Be you, do you, for you.
  • Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
  • Live the life you’ve always imagined!
  • Wanderlust and city dust.
  • It’s a wonderful day.
  • There is power in beauty.
  • There is beauty in simplicity.
  • There’s always a wild side to an innocent face.
  • Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
  • Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
  • Be obsessively grateful.
  • This profile belongs to a lost soul.
  • I am never alone because loneliness is always by my side.
  • Sky above me, earth below me, fire within me.
  • As long as it is forward, I will go anywhere.
  • Every picture tells a story.
  • Sometimes life can surprise you with a happy coincidence.

Facebook Profile Pictures (DP)

Short Captions to Inspire Motivation

You can use these captions to inspire your followers to reach their goals.

  • Happy days are here again!
  • A better version of me.
  • I just leveled up.
  • Life won’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.
  • I’m built from every mistake I have ever made.
  • Be the best version of you.
  • Make today so awesome that yesterday becomes jealous.
  • I’m on top of the world.
  • Wake up and be awesome!
  • Keep smiling.
  • I’m the reason I smile every day.
  • Sometimes, you have to be your own superhero.
  • Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
  • Keep the smile on!
  • When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
  • Do more of what makes you happy.
  • I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny.
  • Be a warrior, not a worrier.
  • With my own hands, I will carve my own fate.
  • Seize the day!
  • I can, and I will, so watch me!
  • A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
  • Take every chance and drop every fear.
  • It always seems impossible until it’s done.
  • Be yourself because there’s no one better.
  • Be silent and let your success shout.
  • Feel the fear and do it anyway.
  • Dream without fear and love without limits.
  • Be brave enough to live differently.
  • Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done!
  • Self-confidence is the best outfit.
  • Grow through what you go through.
  • Follow your dreams.
  • Be the type of person that you want to meet.
  • If you are confident, you are beautiful.
  • Life’s a climb, and the view at the top is great.
  • Don’t let anyone dim your light.
  • I am the writer of my own life story.
  • I’m a direct descendant of awesomeness.
  • I’m a unicorn.
  • I don’t wait for miracles to happen. I create them!
  • Making peace with my broken pieces.
  • Don’t be the same. Be better!
  • The sky is not the limit for me.
  • There’s no one else like me.
  • I’m not beautiful like you. I’m beautiful like me.

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Profile Picture Captions That Can Offer Advice

These photo captions will make your followers see you as a wise figure.

  • When life gets blurry, adjust your focus.
  • To be happy is the most important thing in life.
  • There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.
  • Living is easy with your eyes closed.
  • The best memories come from the craziest ideas.
  • Take the risk or lose the chance.
  • Don’t just exist; live!
  • Practice like you’ve never won; play like you’ve never lost.
  • Look in the mirror! That’s who you are competing with.
  • Being happy never goes out of style.
  • Cherish yesterday, dream tomorrow, live today.
  • Make every second count.
  • Don’t sit like rock. Work like a clock!
  • Success always follows hard work.
  • Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
  • Make it simple but significant.
  • When the roots are deep, there are no reasons to fear the wind.
  • Hustle and heart will set you apart.
  • Aspire to inspire before you expire.
  • The slightest change can make the greatest difference.
  • You only live once.
  • Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
  • It is never too late to be what you might have been.
  • Make life fun today because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
  • Ideas are useless unless used.
  • Think positive, live positive.
  • Struggling means you’re progressing.
  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
  • Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
  • Go where you feel most alive.
  • The day you decide to love yourself is the day you’ll conquer the world.
  • Be the type of person that you want to meet.
  • There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.
  • In every situation, you’re the only one who gets to choose your attitude.
  • Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too.
  • Different doesn’t mean wrong.
  • Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you’re sad.
  • Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
  • A smile is one of the prettiest things one can wear.
  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
  • Live, laugh, and love!
  • Work hard and be nice to people.
  • Love is life. Therefore, if you miss love, you miss life.
  • Face the sunshine, and your shadow will fall behind.
  • Cherish the things that money can’t buy.
  • A good life is a collection of happy moments.
  • This moment will never come again.
  • Live for the moments you can’t explain with words.
  • The most important things in life aren’t things.
  • The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one!
  • You have to be odd to be number one.
  • Whatever you do in life, make sure it makes you happy.
  • Never announce your moves before you make them.
  • The sun will shine someday.
  • What feels like the end is often just the beginning.
  • Style is a reflection of your attitude and personality.
  • All the good things are wild and free.
  • Stay close to what keeps your heart beating.

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Funny Captions for Your Profile Picture

Here are some humorous lines you can use for your display photo. For some hilarious status update ideas, check out this article.

  • I’m not lazy, just chill.
  • All the best people are crazy.
  • If you want to come second, follow me.
  • If I were you, I would adore me.
  • If I had to describe my personality, I’d say good-looking.
  • Always classy, never trashy, and a little bit sassy.
  • I only radiate good vibes.
  • In a world full of trends, I wish to remain a classic.
  • I am a work in progress.
  • For a minute there, I lost myself.
  • Under construction.
  • I’m smiling because I have no idea what’s going on.
  • Too lazy to think of a caption.
  • I’m so cool; even ice cubes are jealous!
  • Wherever I go, I leave sparkles.
  • With this smile, I can get away with anything.
  • I’m so cute that I should wear a warning label.
  • In a world full of muffins, I’m a cupcake.
  • I don’t accept compliments, only cash.
  • My excuse is that I’m young.
  • I collect smiles. Do you want some?
  • I don’t like to follow; I like being followed.
  • A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
  • If you’ve got eyes, look at me!
  • Sunshine and moonshine.
  • My life’s a fairy tale, written in a different style and language.
  • This is my thug life.
  • I woke up like this: “Flawless!”
  • I actually walk the talk.
  • Whatever sprinkles your donuts.
  • No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers.
  • I only grow up, not old.

Facebook Captions In English

 

  • Proof that I can do selfies better than you
  • Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
  • It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel.
  • I may be a bad girl, but I’m a damn good woman.
  • I am just a girl looking for my heart.
  • If you like me then raise your hands. If not then raise your standards.
  • I am not perfect. I make mistakes. But when I say Sorry… I mean it!
  • I don’t need your approval to be me.
  • I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am.
  • Life is better when you’re laughing.
  • Best. Selfie. Ever.
  • You know what’s funny to me? Attitude!
  • My attitude will always be based on how you treat me.
  • I was born to stand out.
  • This is the most magical pic of your life.
  • WARNING: U may fall in love with my face.
  • The smile is the 2nd best thing that U can do with Ur lips.
  • I am not perfect, I make mistakes, I hurt people.
  • If you got eyes, look at me now.
  • Before you judge me, Make sure you are perfect.
  • I know who I am, and I am damn proud of it.
  • Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
  • I Love Life, I Love My Photos.
  • I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
  • Fresh out of the shower, no makeup.
  • A Selfie a day keeps the friends away.
  • Don’t judge, you don’t know my story.
  • Be silent and let your success shout…
  • I Am Who I Am, Your Approval isn’t needed.
  • I graduated from the University of Selfies.
  • I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call

Captions For Facebook Pictures

 

  • it Sunday Fun day.
  • Keep Smiling And Be Beautiful.
  • I am not perfect but I am limited edition.
  • Don’t wait for the PERFECT MOMENT take the moment and make it PERFECT.
  • Surround yourself with makeup, not negativity.
  • We were born to be real not to be perfect.
  • There’s a million fish in the sea, But I’m a Mermaid.
  • My autobiography is this.
  • I woke up like this.
  • When I die my gravestone is going 2 have a ‘Like’ button.
  • It’s cool being me.
  • I choose to be happy….Be happy always….
  • Facebook is the only place where it’s acceptable to talk to a wall.
  • I’m not only responsible for what I say not for what you understand…
  • Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
  • The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
  • There is no competition because nobody can be me.
  • I am not lazy, I am on energy-saving mode.
  • I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
  • I don’t want a perfect life, I want a happy life.
  • They told me I couldn’t that’s why I did.
  • Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.
  • Yes, I am the Princess.
  • The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
  • Life is a journey and only you hold the key.
  • Always wear your invisible crown.
  • If you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.
  • I AM NOT WHAT happened to me, I AM WHAT I CHOOSE to become.
  • Love life and life finds a beautiful way to love you back.
  • Love is the beauty of the soul.

Facebook Captions For DP

  • Live life, Laugh Loud, Love forever.
  • You have every right to a beautiful Life!
  • I don’t take selfies all the time, just every day.
  • OMG, look at my selfie.
  • Confidence level: Selfie with no filter
  • The best selfies are the ones that aren’t.
  • I’m no beauty queen, I’m just beautiful me.
  • Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.
  • Happy girls are the prettiest.
  • Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the HEART.
  • No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.
  • Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
  • Be your own kind of beautiful.
  • But first, let me take a selfie.
  • Sending my selfie to NASA, because I’m a star.
  • Does this selfie make me look fat?
  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
  • Surround yourself with those who make you happy.
  • Life is made of small moments like this.
  • Being classy isn’t a choice. It’s a lifestyle.
  • I don’t take selfies all the time. I just do it once and a while every day.
  • Morning time is Selfie time.
  • Don’t copy my style of taking Selfies 😀
  • Be who you truly are.
  • You don’t know me.
  • I am who I am and that’s all I’ll ever be.
  • Hating me doesn’t make U pretty.
  • No matter how you feel get up dress and show up. Never give up.
  • Love me or hate me I’m still gonna shine.
  • Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.
  • A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
  • A smile is a light in the window of your soul.
  • Keep smiling…One day life will get tired of upsetting you!
  • Don’t forget to…Smile 🙂
  • Careless, Smile more.

Smile Facebook Captions

  • Peace begins with a smile.
  • If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine.
  • A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear.
  • You’re never fully dressed without a smile.
  • Smile, it confuses people.
  • A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
  • Be Happy And Smile. SMILE because it makes you beautiful.
  • Life is better when you’re smiling.
  • A friend will always make you Smile, especially when you don’t want to..!!
  • Just hanging with my friends!
  • With You, I forget all my problems. With You, Time Stands Still.
  • Be happy. Someone could be falling for your smile.
  • Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
  • Begin and End your day with a smile 🙂
  • Smile is the only fashion that lasts forever.
  • Never underestimate the power of a charming Smile.
  • Smile, Life is Beautiful!
  • There is no remedy for love other than to love more.
  • Everyone you meet has something to teach you.
  • Make peace with your broken pieces.
  • Deal with your problems before they deal with your happiness.

 

Classy Facebook Captions For Profile

  • Stay classy!
  • It’s not my attitude. It’s my style.
  • I want to live my life, not record it.
  • I may be quiet, but I have so much on my mind.
  • You must not be afraid to sparkle a little brighter darling.
  • Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
  • I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.
  • Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
  • I’m not lazy, just relaxed.
  • Be yourself, there’s no one better.
  • Always classy, never trashy, and a little bit sassy.
  • Be proud of who you are and not ashamed of how others see you.
  • Don’t judge my choices without understanding my reasons.

Caption For Facebook Profile Picture

Like me for who I am and not for who you want me to be. Take it or leave it. That simple.

  • Not everyone likes me, but not everyone matters.
  • Behind every successful woman is herself.
  • Be yourself, no one else.
  • You were born an original, don’t die a copy.
  • My style is unique, please don’t copy it!
  • What others think of me is none of my business.
  • Treat me the way you expect to be treated.
  • Be yourself, everyone else is taken.
  • Don’t let people tell you the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
  • Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
  • Always be kinder than you feel.
  • Don’t think outside the box. Think like there is no box.
  • Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
  • Train your mind to see the good in everything.
  • It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
  • Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle.
  • Always look on the bright side of life.
  • Stop wishing for it and start working for it.
  • Dreams don’t work unless you do.
  • Keep your face towards the sunshine, you will never see the shadow.
  • Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.

Facebook Photo Captions About Life

  • There’s always a wild side to an innocent face.
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
  • Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
  • There are blessings every day. Find them. Create them. Treasure them.
  • Don’t stress. Do your best. Forget the rest.
  • Great things never came from comfort zones.
  • Great people do things before they’re ready.
  • Life is like a balloon…If you never let go, you will not know how high can you rise.
  • It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
  • I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny.
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
  • There can be no positive result through negative attitude.
  • Think positive. Live positive.
  • Sometimes life can surprise you with a happy coincidence.
  • Life is way too short for bad vibes.
  • If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.
  • The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
  • It always seems impossible until it’s done.
  • Don’t let someone dim your light, simply because it’s shining in their eyes.
  • Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.
  • Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.
  • Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it!
  • Just live, love and eat; Repeat.
  • Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference!
  • Don’t be afraid just be yourself.
  • Be a little more you, and a lot less them.
  • Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions!

Sunday Facebook Captions

  • Sunday Means Fun Day!
  • Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
  • Whatever you do in life, make sure it makes you happy.
  • No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
  • I didn’t change, I just found myself.
  • You don’t have to like me, I’m not a Facebook status.
  • Take me as I am, or watch me as I go.
  • Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
  • Be patient good things take time.
  • Follow your hopes and not your fears.
  • Follow your heart not your mind.
  • Have more than you show and speak less than you know.
  • I am more than what you see.
  • I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
  • Different doesn’t mean wrong.
  • When nothing goes right, go left instead!
  • If you get tired learn to rest not to quit.
  • Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Short Caption For Profile Picture

  • Live the life you’ve imagined!
  • Many have an image of me, but few get the picture.
  • When your heart is happy, your mind is free.
  • Stay true to you and you will end up incredibly happy.
  • I am not the best but I am trying my best.
  • Live for the moments you can’t put into words.
  • I think it’s time to be happy again.
  • There is great beauty in being yourself.
  • If you are confident you are beautiful.
  • Life isn’t perfect but your outfit can be.
  • Living my life in my style.

Good Facebook Captions

  • You can’t handle me even if I came with instructions.
  • Today I choose to be the best version of myself.
  • I am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
  • I’m tired with this day, I need a new one.
  • I don’t like to follow. I like being followed.
  • I’m a direct descendant of awesomeness.
  • I’m not lazy. Someone just stole my motivation.
  • Don’t look for miracles. YOU yourself are the miracle.
  • Make life fun, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
  • Don’t study me, you won’t graduate.
  • God is really creative, I mean…Just look at me.
  • I love my job only when I’m on vacation.

Hope you love our efforts to collect Facebook captions for you all. We also work hard and collect good captions for the Instagram post to inspire your Instagram audience. Check them also and let us by your comments which caption you love most.

Caption for Facebook

Get the best captions for Facebook and make your friends and followers go wow. This collection has the most creative words to be used as captions for any picture on Facebook. Take a look and pick the ones that fit you the best.

  • There should be a “Nobody Cares” button on Facebook.
  • So, you sent me a Facebook friend request with a picture of a car profile, I assume you’re a transformer.
  • I used to have a life before, but then I was told to create a Facebook account.
  •  I have a small circle because I care about quality, not quantity.
  • You have to understand that Facebook is a social network, not a diary.
  •  Facebook is the only place in the world where talking to a wall is okay.

Facebook Captions for Selfies

Looking for cute and funny selfie captions for Facebook? Here is a collection of captions and quotes for selfies on Facebook. With these FB selfie captions, you can get more likes and make your picture one of the most liked ones in your friend circle.

  • Sometimes you don’t need a caption, the picture says it all.
  • I may not be perfect, but I’m definitely limited edition.
  • Being calm and taking the best selfies. 😎🤳
  • You don’t have to like me. I don’t wake up everyday to impress you.
  • Be nice to me and I’ll be your best friend. Mess with me and I’ll be your worst nightmare.
  • If you can’t find a way, make one.
  • I love my haters. They are the best motivators. ✌️
  • Being nice has always been my strength until I met you.
  • Couldn’t think of a better pose. 😀
  • Find yourself and be that.
  • Not everyone likes me, but not everyone matters.
  • Keep smiling every day. One day life will get tired of upsetting you.
  • Loving my life and moving on.
  • You don’t like me? I don’t wake every day just to impress you!

Facebook Captions for Girls

Get the best girly quotes and perfectly crafted words as your caption for the next FB post. This list has some of the most adorable, cute, funny, sassy and classy FB captions for girls you will ever find. Take a look.

  • I’m no beauty queen, I’m just beautiful me.
  • I’m the queen of my own little world.
  • Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.
  • No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.
  • There’s always a crazy side to a normal face.

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  • My jawline is stronger than your opinion.
  • Live the life you’ve imagined!
  • I’m a butterfly. Pretty to see, hard to catch.
  • Elegance is beauty that never fades.
  • Just a girl boss, building her empire.
  • Be a princess. You deserve it.
  • No pouts, only smiles!
  • Better to be strong than pretty and useless. 💪
  • I don’t take selfies all the time. Just every day!
  • Whatever boys can do, girls can do better.
  • If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.
  • A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.
  • Wearing that simple you gave me. 😊
  • Love yourself, be yourself!
  • I am strong, I am beautiful, I am enough. 💪 ✌️
  • It only takes one bad boyfriend to realize that you deserve so much more.
  • Make your own destiny. Be your own queen.

Facebook Captions for Boys

We know you have been looking for the most unique and stylish Facebook captions for boys. Did you find them? Of course, you did. This list is the only one you will need to get more likes on every picture you post on FB. Don’t trust us? Just copy-paste one of these FB captions for boys and see the magic happen.

  • If you kiss my neck, I’m not responsible for what happens next.
  • Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
  • Don’t be afraid just be yourself.
  • It’s not me against the world. It’s just me against me.
  • Looking at the world right in the eye.
  • Don’t be afraid to fall. Be afraid not to try.
  • Making mistakes is better than faking perfection.
  • Swag is for boys. Class is for men.
  • Keeping it simple yet classy.
  • Dude with an attitude.
  • Be swaggy, yet be humble.
  • Simplicity is sexy.
  • Be different. Be irreplaceable.
  • I don’t see myself as handsome. I just know how to charm you into liking me.
  • I don’t like myself without a beard. Do you?

Facebook Captions for Friends

Got the perfect pictures with friends and want to share on Facebook? Facebook captions for friends can make your picture all the more captivating and interesting. Here is a collection of captions for all your pictures with friends and loved ones.

  • You can’t do epic shit with normal people.
  • Love this feeling of being the one to capture the moment. ✌️
  • They can be a******s at times, but life isn’t worth it without them.
  • With them ❤️
  • Simpy happy to be around you guys!! 😃🤗
  • Making the most of this friendship.
  • I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.
  • When you find a person who can match your craziness level, life becomes fun.
  • Friends are the siblings God never gave us. 🤗
  • Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
  • I love my crazy best friends. ❤️
  • Remember to lean on your support system and check on your strong friends.
  • Be with those who bring out the best in you.

Facebook Captions for Boyfriend

Want to tag your boyfriend in your Facebook photo? Here are the nicest captions you can use with it. These will not just bring a smile to his lips, it will make him feel lucky to have you in his life. So, here comes the best Facebook captions for your bf.

  • That smile you see. Yes, that one. It’s just for you.
  • I’m happiest when I’m right next to you.
  • When I’m not with you, I’m not complete.
  • You’re the apple of my pie. ❤️❤️❤️
  • Here’s what you were asking for. Mmmmuuuaa…
  • In case you ever foolishly forget, I am not thinking about you.
  • Can you just stop staring? I feel shy. 😊
  • I love him a latte.
  • Can’t believe you are mine!
  • My interest includes putting blankets on sleeping animals just in case they’re cold.
  • The tans might fade, but our summer memories will last forever.
  • Being with you is like a dream I never wanna wake up from.
  • Sunshine mixed with a little hurricane.
  • I so wish to hold you tight. 🤗❤️
  • I like your last name. Can I have it?
  • If you’re lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let him go.
  • I love my crazy, goofy, sometimes stupid boyfriend
  • What I have with you I don’t want with anyone else.
  • I know I’m a handful, but that’s why you got two hands.
  • Kissing burns 6.4 calories per minute. Wanna make out?
  • Your the type of boy I’d make a sandwich for.
  • Yeah, I know he’s cute. but he’s mine. touch him and I’ll kill you.
  • I love my crazy goofy sometimes stupid but so amazing boyfriend. 😍
  • The leaves might fall, but you’ll be in my heart forever.

Facebook Captions for Girlfriend

Want to make your girl feel special? Here is a collection of the perfect words you will need to bring a smile on your lady love’s face. So, go on and get the best Facebook captions for your girlfriend.

  • You know I’m never giving up on you… never ever…
  • In case you ever foolishly forget, I am not thinking about you.
  • I fell in love with you. Not for how you look, just for who you are. Although you look pretty great too. ❤️😍
  • A brighter start to the morning.
  • Yeah, I know he’s cute. but he’s mine. touch him and I’ll kill you.
  • The tans might fade, but our summer memories will last forever.
  • The leaves might fall, but you’ll be in my heart forever.
  • You came into my life and became it. 🤗
  • Your love is not one of the things I need to survive – it is the ONLY thing I need to survive.
  • When I’m with you, hours feel like seconds. When we’re apart, days feel like years.
  • The man I crush on every Monday (and every other day of the week)
  • I am going to stop calling you my girlfriend because you are not a girl, you are an angel.
  • Not to brag, but I think we’re really cute together. 😍
  • Are you a dictionary?? Because you give meaning to my life..!!
  • Your the type of boy I’d make a sandwich for. ❤️
  • I love my crazy goofy sometimes stupid but so amazing boyfriend.
  • My six-word love story: I can’t imagine life without you.
  • You’re my favorite place to go when my mind searches for peace.
  • WARNING: You may fall in love with my face
  • Life is better when you’re smiling
  • The best selfies are the ones that aren’t
  • Be your own kind of beautiful
  • A smile is the shortest distance between two people
  • Surround yourself with those who make you happy
  • Life is made of small moments like this
  • Don’t let someone dim your light, simply because it’s shining in their eyes
  • There’s always a wild side to an innocent face
  • Smile, it confuses people
  • Hating me doesn’t make U pretty
  • Put my selfie on top of the tree because I’m the star
  • I’m not lazy, just relaxed
  • But first, let me take a selfie
  • Be yourself, there’s no one better
  • Confidence level: selfie with no filter
  • Smile, breathe, and go slowly
  • Make peace with your broken pieces
  • Life is way too short for bad vibes
  • Does this selfie make me look fat?
  • Surround yourself with makeup not negativity
  • I love the confidence that makeup gives me
  • Behind every successful women is herself
  • Strong women rule the world
  • Strong women conquer the world
  • On Wednesdays I wear pink
  • Be the type of person that you want to meet
  • Your hair is 90% of your selfie
  • Why not take a selfie when you are feeling good and fresh today
  • I wish, I could donate my body fat to those in need
  • A selfie a day, keeps your fb friends away
  • Believe in your #Selfie
  • Best selfie of all time
  • Selfies can boost your confidence
  • This is one of the Selfies I really like
  • I had spent more than 30 minutes for taking this selfie
  • This is called a selfie
  • This is just a sample. More coming soon.
  • Masterpiece under construction
  • Happiness is..taking photos from the perfect angles
  • Happiness is..a perfect selfie in just one click
  • Happiness is when you have a picture perfect selfie!
  • Happiness is..a GREAT selfie
  • Happiness is..a perfect selfie
  • I have no selfie control
  • No job is complete until the selfie is posted
  • When your selfie goes horribly wrong..
  • Oh My God!! How cute I am?
  • A selfie once a day keeps the depression away
  • You don’t have to like me; I’m not a Facebook status
  • Be sure to hit that like button
  • Don’t copy my style of taking Selfies
  • I bet you can’t scroll without liking this pic
  • Beautiful things don’t ask for attention
  • My snaps never bothered me anyway
  • Selfies show us what we look like, not who we are
  • Trust me, when I woke up today, I had no plans to be awesome
  • Capture the moment..It lives forever..
  • There is beauty in simplicity
  • When I fell for you, I fell Hard
  • Since you’ve been around I smile a lot more than I use to
  • LOVE is..being stupid together
  • Happiness is..being with you
  • Happiness is..a great selfie of us
  • Happiness is..the perfect selfie of us
  • Happiness is..taking silly pictures with you
  • Happiness is..to be with you FOREVER
  • Being with you is what I call happiness
  • We go together like cupcakes & frosting
  • We go together like peanut butter & jelly
  • We go together like copy and paste
  • We go together like cookies & milk
  • We go together like a burger and fries!
  • We go together like salt & pepper
  • We go together like peas and carrots
  • We go together like coffee & donuts
  • Morning coffee, because anything else is worthless
  • How Do I Feel When There Is No Coffee? Depresso!
  • I am a foodie. I’m not afraid to say it.
  • I’m on a seafood diet, I see food and I eat it
  • I can’t be awesome with an empty stomach
  • I could be so skinny, If I didn’t have my taste buds.
  • Start everyday with a Smile 🙂
  • End your day with a smile, a happy thought and a grateful heart
  • Wait a minute I need to post this
  • Stop thinking take selfies
  • It’s a selfie Sunday! Everyone post a selfie!
  • Proof that I can do selfies better than you
  • If you have beautiful eyes praise my selfie
  • Life’s short smile while you still have teeth
  • Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about
  • Smile because it happened!
  • Smile, Life is Beautiful!
  • Beauty is power; a smile is its sword
  • As beautiful on the inside as I am on the outside
  • Always classy, never trashy and a little bit sassy!
  • Animal selfies are the best selfies
  • Now it is a dogfie
  • Happiness is..a selfie with my dog
  • Now I realize that the earth is round as it looks like in a globe
  • Mother nature has the best box of crayons
  • Travel is my therapy
  • Get lost in nature and you will find yourself
  • On top of mountains & beneath the stars
  • I need a six month holiday, twice a year
  • My life: Pizza and Movies!
  • Tired of work now selfie time
  • Just see my today’s selfie
  • Taking all these selfies, but yet you can never find the perfect one
  • A selfie has more face and fewer feelings
  • Please keep my selfie today. In future, you should have to pay for one.
  • Take my selfie and be merry
  • Go wild for a while
  • Escape the ordinary
  • Dreams will come true if you go for it
  • Dream without fear. Love without limits.
  • Beautiful minds inspire others
  • My brain has too many tabs open
  • If I had to describe my personality, I’d say good looking.
  • I’m always trying hard to improve my selfies
  • Behind every successful selfie, there are 99 failed and deleted shots
  • Now that is what I call a perfect selfie
  • Admit it. Life would be so boring without me!
  • Oh my goodness! Can you imagine if there were two of me!
  • Who cares?! I’m Awesome
  • Excuse me, I have to go be awesome
  • I’m a direct descendant from awesomeness
  • My style is unique, please don’t copy it!
  • I’m trending right now
  • I’m not fat. I’m just much easier to see.
  • Taking cute selfies is really hard when you’re not cute 😉
  • Don’t dare to unlike me
  • I’m not sure what to do with my face
  • Let your eyes do the talking
  • It’s all about the glow
  • A selfie without makeover
  • Wake up and Make up
  • Never underestimate the power of an eyebrow
  • If I were you, I’d wanna be me too
  • If I were you, I would adore me
  • Sweeter than honey
  • You wanna ask my beauty secret
  • Are you jealous of my beauty?
  • Catch a glimpse
  • I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome!
  • All the best people are crazy
  • Life is better when you’re with friends
  • Life is a lot better when you have someone to share it with
  • Let us get lost in the sunset together
  • Life was meant for good friends and great adventures
  • Sometimes, being silly with a friend is the best therapy!
  • Coffee and Friends make the perfect blend
  • Our friendship is..awesome!!
  • Friends make the world beautiful
  • A friend is a second self
  • If you have crazy friends you have everything you’ll ever need
  • Always better together
  • Friends make you laugh till your cheeks hurt
  • Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier
  • No man is a failure who has friends
  • Some friendships are timeless
  • Friends are like flowers, they add color to your life
  • I don’t know what I did to have a best friend like you
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings
  • Good times & Crazy friends make the best memories
  • Happiness is..a selfie with friends
  • Happiness is taking crazy selfies with your Bestie
  • Friendship is..a selfie
  • Just hanging with my Friends!
  • Silly time with besties
  • The best time is the friends time
  • A friend will always make you Smile, especially when you don’t want to..
  • She’s my bestie. If you break her heart, I’ll break your face.
  • You and I are more than friends, we’re like a really small gang
  • Making memories with you, is my favorite thing to do
  • Take me as I am, or watch me as I go
  • Every path has obstacles, but it is up to you to continue to smile and walk that path
  • Turn the pain into power
  • No one is you. That’s your power!
  • Making mistakes is better than faking perfections
  • Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
  • Take every chance you get in life because some things only happen once
  • Just be yourself, there is no one better
  • Just be you..because you are the best
  • Before spending time trying to find someone, you must first find yourself
  • Some days start better than others
  • The sun will shine someday

Motivational Captions for Display Pictures

  • Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.
  • Turn your face towards sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
  • Fly high and touch the sky. Never give up!!!
  • Aim for the moon, if you miss you may hit a star.
  • Hakuna Matata!
  • If sky is the limit, then go there.
  • If you get tired learn to rest not to quit.
  • They told me I couldn’t that’s why I did.
  • Don’t be afraid of being a beginner, everyone starts somewhere.
  • If you can stay positive in a negative situation you win.
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
  • “Be Strong” a phrase that’s easy to say but a hard thing to do when you’re broken.
  • Be silent and let your success shout.
  • If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.
  • Stop looking for happiness in the same place you just lost it.
  • If you can dream it, you can do it.
  • I am not the best but I am trying my best.
  • Always hold your head up.
  • Being different is one of the most beautiful things on earth…
  • To be inspired is great, to inspire is incredible.
  • Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.
  • Live the life you’ve imagined.
  • Follow your hopes and not your fears.
  • Fear can hold you prisoner; hope can set you free.
  • Where hope grows, miracles blossom.
  • Life is way too short for bad vibes.
  • Think positive. Live positive.
  • Never stop looking up…!!
  • Don’t let someone dim your light, simply because it’s shining in their eyes.
  • Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle.
  • Great things never came from comfort zones.
  • Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it!
  • Dreams don’t work unless you do.
  • I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.
  • Look at the world through RAINBOW colored glass.
  • Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
  • Stop wishing for it and start working for it.
  • I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
  • If people are trying to bring you down it only means that you are above them.
  • Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
  • When Life Gets Blurry, Adjust Your FOCUS.
  • To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
  • Your life is message to the world make sure it’s inspiring.
  • Everyone you meet has something to teach you.
  • Deal with your problems before they deal with your happiness.
  • Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions!
  • Make peace with your broken pieces.
  • Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
  • Life is a journey and only you hold the key.
  • Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
  • Don’t let people tell you the sky is the limit, when there’s footprints on the moon.

Self-love Captions for your Profile Pictures

  • Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
  • Don’t look for miracles. YOU yourself are the miracle.
  • Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.
  • Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the HEART.
  • If you are confident, you are beautiful.
  • Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
  • Be your kind of beautiful.
  • Be the type of person that you want to meet.
  • I am more than what you see.
  • There is great beauty in being yourself.
  • There is no competition because nobody can be me.
  • I don’t need your approval to be me.
  • I am the writer of my own life story.
  • No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

Love Captions for Couple Pictures

  • Silence speaks when words can’t.
  • I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest good bye.
  • I give my heart to you.
  • Love is caring for each other even when you’re angry.
  • Stay close to what keeps your heart beating.
  • I love thing that make you smile.
  • You hurt me but I still love me.
  • I feel so alone without you.
  • Always better together.
  • There is no remedy for love than to love more.
  • Something amazing happens when you’re in love and don’t give a damn about what day it is anymore.
  • I wish you told me from the start that you were gonna break my heart.
  • As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.
  • Love is the beauty of the soul.
  • The best thing about me is you…
  • You came into my life and became it.
  • Best way to not get your heart broken, is pretend you don’t have one.
  • Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
  • Gravitation is not responsible for falling in love.
  • Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.

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Black Author Quotes

Black Author Quotes

To commemorate Black History Month, we’ve compiled a list Top motivational Black History Month quotations from civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Du Bois. With their incisive comments, landmark speeches, and more, these prominent public leaders have left an indelible impression on our country.

The month celebrates African Americans’ diverse experiences, difficulties, and accomplishments throughout history and into the present.

The black family has been “reverenced, stereotyped, and despised from the days of slavery to our own day,” according to this year’s theme, “The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.” According to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which founded Black History Month, the theme encompasses the individual black family and encourages “discussions on the nature and impact of parenting, childhood, marriage, gender norms, sexuality, and incarceration.”

The theme also includes people from Africa and the diaspora, as well as how the black family’s larger identity has been depicted in history, literature, the visual arts, and other disciplines.

“The black family knows no one location,” the ASALH says on its website, “since family reunions and genetic-ancestry searches attest to the spread of family members across states, nations, and continents.” “Not only are individual black families diasporic, but Africa and the diaspora have long been portrayed collectively as the black family.”

We’ve gathered great inspiring quotes from civil rights heroes like Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as words of wisdom from inspiring modern personalities like Viola Davis, Janelle Monáe, and Shonda Rhimes, in honour of Black History Month. With their incisive comments, significant speeches, stunning writing and performances, and more, these public people have left an indelible impression on our country.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a crowd in Jan. 1965.
Black Author Quotes

 

Black History Month Quotes

  • “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut.
  • “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” —W.E.B. Du Bois
  • “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” —Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member
  • “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King
  • “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” —Susan L. Taylor, journalist
  • “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” —Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer
  • “One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.” —Franklin Thomas, activist, philanthropist, and former president of the Ford Foundation
  • “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” —Desmond Tutu Related, new Artists, Songs and Albums to Add to Your Playlists in Honor of Black Music Month.
  • “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes
  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 13. “Have a vision. Be demanding.” —Colin Powell
  • “Freedom is never given; it is won.” —A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
  • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.” —Jesse Owens, world record-setting Olympic athlete
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” —Rosa Parks
  • “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald
  • “If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.” —Mary McLeod Bethune
  • “Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.” —William Lloyd Garrison.

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  • “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” —Sojourner Truth
  • “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
  • “Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.” —Earl G. Graves, Sr.
  • “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou
  • “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” —Morgan Freeman
  • “It’s important for us to also understand that the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed. It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter. It’s to suggest that other folks aren’t experiencing this particular vulnerability.” —Barack Obama
  • ”I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.” —Langston Hughes
  • “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as early as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.” —Ida B. Wells
  • “I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder.” —Assata Shakur
  • “I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” —Claudette Colvin
  • “During Black History Month, I’m reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers’ rights.” —Tom Perez
  • “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.” —Ola Joseph
  • “Character is power.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” —Michelle Obama

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  • “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” —Mother Teresa
  • “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” —Malcolm X
  • “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” —Frederick Douglass
  • I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell.” —Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
  • “Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.” —Dennis Leary.
  • “Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “’We, the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’” —Barbara Jordan
  • “I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” —Rosa Parks
  • “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • “The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery’s buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: ‘My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” —Marcus Garvey
  • “There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.” —Ava DuVernay
  • “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” —Serena Williams
  • “As black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences — experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.” —Viola Davis
  • “Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” —Shonda Rhimes
  • “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” —Jackie Robinson
  • “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” —Shirley Chisholm
  • “I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.” —Jay-Z
  • “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou
  • “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.” —Aretha Franklin
  • “The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” —Henry Louis Gates
  • “Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” —Marty Meehan
  • “Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.” —Karyn Parsons
  • “Don’t agonize, organize.” —Florynce Kennedy
  • “Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.” —Tina Turner
  • “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” —Toni Morrison
  • “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” —Michelle Obama
  • “The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.” —Chinua Achebe
  • “If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” —Carl Lewis
  • “Stretch your mind and fly.” —Whitney M. Young Jr
  • “Don’t let anything stop you. There will be times when you’ll be disappointed, but you can’t stop.” —Sadie T. M. Alexander
  • “Life has two rules: number 1, never quit! Number 2, always remember rule number one.” —Duke Ellington
  • “Be as you are and hope that it’s right.” —Dizzy Gillespie
  • “A man without knowledge of himself and his heritage is like a tree without roots.” —Dick Gregory
  • “If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” —James Baldwin
  • “We have a wonderful history behind us…and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.” —Carter G. Woodson
  • “When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
  • “You are your best thing.” —Toni Morrison
  • “I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” —June Jordan
  • “I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.” —Tracee Ellis Ross
  • “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” —Nina Simone
  • “Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am.” —Janelle Monáe
  • “You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” —Vernon Jordan
  • “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” —Beyonce Knowles
  • “Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.” —Kwame Nkrumah
  • “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” —Madam C.J. Walker
  • “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” —Ida B. Wells
  • “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.” —Harriet Tubman
  • “Make a difference about something other than yourselves.” —Toni Morrison
  • “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” —Arthur Ashe
  • “God’s time [Emancipation]is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.” —Harriet Tubman
  • “The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up.” —Mae C. Jemison
  • “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens
  • “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” —Wilma Rudolph
  • “For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope… and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” —Robert F. Kennedy
  • “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” —James Earl Jones
  • “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” —Eldridge Cleaver
  • “There is no vaccine for racism.” —Kamala Harris
  • “Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals?” —Barack Obama
  • “We will all, at some point, encounter hurdles to gaining access and entry, moving up and conquering self-doubt; but on the other side is the capacity to own opportunity and tell our own story.” —Stacey Abrams
  • “Friendly reminder that you don’t have to say the ‘n word’ to be racist. That’s not the sole requirement. Asking people to prove racism is another tool the oppressor uses to marginalize and discredit us.” —Lizzo
  • “The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” —Toni Morrison
  • “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” —Ijoema Oluo
  • “Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” —John Lewis
  • “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” —Alice Walker
  • “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” —Angela Davis
  • ”We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.” —Yvette Clarke

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Inspirational Quotes

  • “History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. –Michelle Obama
  • “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
  • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” – Thurgood Marshall
  • “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King
  • “If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” – Russell Simmons
  • “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” – Carol Moseley-Braun
  • “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson
  • “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Desmond Tutu
  • “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcom X
  • “It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
  • “Character is power.” – Booker T. Washington
  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Freedom is never given; it is won.” – A. Philip Randolph
  • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

Black Author Quotes

 

Black Quotes About Dreams

  • “Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.” –Earl G. Graves, Sr.
  • “You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” – Maya Angelou
  • “Have a vision. Be demanding.” – Colin Powell
  • “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
  • “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” – Rita Dove
  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
  • “What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?” – Toni Morrison
  • “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” – Dr. Mae Jemison
  • “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” – Langston Hughes
  • “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” – Susan L. Taylor
  • “It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.” -Zora Neale Hurston
  • “No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much.” Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.” – bell hooks
  • “I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.” -Ntozake Shange
  • “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde
  • “We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou
  • “I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” -Alice Walker
  • “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
  • “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -Toni Morrison
  • “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.” – Toni Morrison
  • “Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.” – Patricia Hill Collins
  • “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.” ― Micere Githae Mugo
  • “Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it’s not like living when you can only do what you doing.” ― Sapphire
  • “A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
  • “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • “I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.” -Ntozake Shange
  • “Let woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.” – Anna Julia Cooper
  • “I don’t want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.” -Sista Soulja
  • “Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.” ― Pearl Cleage
  • “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou
  • “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • “Many times, what people call ‘writer’s block’ is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.” -Pearl Cleage
  • “Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.” -Sister Souljah
  • “Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing.” -Pearl Cleage
  • “Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” -Alice Walker
  • “You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.” ― Nikki Giovanni
  • “Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” ― Nikki Giovanni
  • “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” -Lorraine Hansberry
  • “People who want to write either do it or they don’t. At last I began to say that my most important talent – or habit – was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • “People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.” –Lucille Clifton 32. “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” ― June Jordan
  • “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” -Angela Davis
  • “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” -Maya Angelou
  • “It is the duty of the younger Negro artist…to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I be white?
  • I am a Negro—and beautiful!'” -Langston Hughes
  • “We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings…In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.” -Malcolm X (Black Revolution)
  • “Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” -Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon) “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin (As Much Truth As One Can Bear, New York Times) toni morrison
  • “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” -Toni Morrison (Nobel lecture, 1993)
  • ‘Many and most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love and hate and fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider’s web holding fast to a doomed fly’s wings.” -Walter Mosley (When the Thrill Is Gone)
  • “Miracles happen all the time. We’re here, aren’t we?” -Marilyn Nelson (Abba Jacob and Miracles)
  • “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” -Zadie Smith (On Beauty) james baldwin author “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -James Baldwin (No Name in the Street)
  • “Nobody’s as powerful as we make them out to be.” -Alice Walker (The Third Life of Grange Copeland)

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Powerful Quotes Celebrating Black History Month

Many black figures, including Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, and W.E.B. DuBois, have bravely addressed major societal concerns like education, identity, equality, and civil rights, as well as presenting fresh ideas that have helped build the world as we know it today and made it a better place to live.

These men and women have garnered various prizes and distinctions, including the Nobel Prize, for their dedicated labour, prophetic insights, and creative output, which includes introducing astounding innovations and writing timeless fiction and nonfiction. We’ve gathered some compelling quotes from renowned black writers to share with friends and loved ones as you celebrate this wonderful month, or any other day, in honour of these remarkable people and this fantastic month. These quotations are both inspirational and motivating.

For millions of individuals all throughout the world, they have been a source of inspiration. Below are some beautiful morsels of wisdom from notable black writers.

  • W.E.B Dubois (African-American historian, activist and author).

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“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

 

  • Nikki Giovanni Jr. (African-American writer and educator).

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“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”

 

  • Toni Morrison (African-American novelist and professor).

Black Author Quotes

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

  • Derek Walcott (St. Lucian poet and playwright).

Black Author Quotes

“… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element….”

 

  • Maya Angelou (African-American author and poet).

Black Author Quotes

“You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”

 

  • George Washington Carver (African-American educator, scientist and inventor).

Black Author Quotes

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

 

  • Alice Walker (African-American author, poet and activist).

Black Author Quotes

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book.”

“If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?”

 

  • Langston Hughes (African-American poet, novelist and playwright).

Black Author Quotes

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

 

  • Booker T. Washington (African-American educator, author and orator).

Black Author Quotes

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

 

  • Chinua Achebe (Nigerian novelist, poet and professor).

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“The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”

 

  • Wole Soyinka (Nigerian writer, poet and playwright).

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“I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”

“My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.”

 

  • Alex Haley (African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Roots”).

Black Author Quotes

“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it”

“Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues – which takes years.”

“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

 

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Black History Month Quotes

  • “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut
  • “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” —W.E.B. Du Bois
  • “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” —Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member
  • “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King
  • “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” —Susan L. Taylor, journalist
  • “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” —Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer
  • “One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.” —Franklin Thomas, activist, philanthropist, and former president of the Ford Foundation
  • “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” —Desmond Tutu Related:
  • “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes
  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Have a vision. Be demanding.” —Colin Powell
  • “Freedom is never given; it is won.” —A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
  • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.” —Jesse Owens, world record-setting Olympic athlete
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” —Rosa Parks
  • “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald
  • “If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.” —Mary McLeod Bethune
  • “Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.” —William Lloyd Garrison
  • “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” —Sojourner Truth
  • “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
  • “Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.” —Earl G. Graves, Sr.
  • “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou
  • “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” —Morgan Freeman
  • “It’s important for us to also understand that the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed. It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter. It’s to suggest that other folks aren’t experiencing this particular vulnerability.” —Barack Obama
  • ”I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.” —Langston Hughes
  • “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as early as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.” —Ida B. Wells
  • “I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder.” —Assata Shakur
  • “I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” —Claudette Colvin
  • “During Black History Month, I’m reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers’ rights.” —Tom Perez
  • “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.” —Ola Joseph
  • “Character is power.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” —Michelle Obama
  • “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” —Mother Teresa
  • “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” —Malcolm X
  • “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” —Frederick Douglass
  • “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” —Muhammad Ali

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  • “Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell.” —Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
  • “Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.” —Dennis Leary
  • “Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “’We, the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake.
  • But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’” —Barbara Jordan
  • “I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” —Rosa Parks
  • “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • “The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery’s buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: ‘My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” —Marcus Garvey
  • “There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.” —Ava DuVernay
  • “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” —Serena Williams
  • “As black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences — experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.” —Viola Davis
  • “Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” —Shonda Rhimes
  • “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” —Jackie Robinson
  • “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” —Shirley Chisholm
  • “I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.” —Jay-Z
  • “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou
  • “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.” —Aretha Franklin
  • “The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” —Henry Louis Gates
  • “Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” —Marty Meehan
  • “Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.” —Karyn Parsons
  • “Don’t agonize, organize.” —Florynce Kennedy
  • “Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.” —Tina Turner
  • “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” —Toni Morrison
  • “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” —Michelle Obama
  • “The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.” —Chinua Achebe
  • “If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” —Carl Lewis
  • “Stretch your mind and fly.” —Whitney M. Young Jr
  • “Don’t let anything stop you. There will be times when you’ll be disappointed, but you can’t stop.” —Sadie T. M. Alexander
  • “Life has two rules: number , never quit! Number , always remember rule number one.” —Duke Ellington
  • “Be as you are and hope that it’s right.” —Dizzy Gillespie
  • “A man without knowledge of himself and his heritage is like a tree without roots.” —Dick Gregory
  • “If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” —James Baldwin
  • “We have a wonderful history behind us…and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.” —Carter G. Woodson
  • “When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
  • “You are your best thing.” —Toni Morrison
  • “I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” —June Jordan
  • “I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.” —Tracee Ellis Ross
  • “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” —Nina Simone
  • “Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am.” —Janelle Monáe
  • “You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” —Vernon Jordan
  • “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” —Beyonce Knowles
  • “Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.” —Kwame Nkrumah
  • “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” —Madam C.J. Walker
  • “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” —Ida B. Wells
  • “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.” —Harriet Tubman
  • “Make a difference about something other than yourselves.” —Toni Morrison
  • “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” —Arthur Ashe
  • “God’s time [Emancipation]is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.” —Harriet Tubman
  • “The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up.” —Mae C. Jemison
  • “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens
  • “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” —Wilma Rudolph
  • “For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope… and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” —Robert F. Kennedy
  • “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” —Booker T. Washington
  • “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” —James Earl Jones
  • “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” —Eldridge Cleaver
  • “There is no vaccine for racism.” —Kamala Harris
  • “Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals?” —Barack Obama
  • “We will all, at some point, encounter hurdles to gaining access and entry, moving up and conquering self-doubt; but on the other side is the capacity to own opportunity and tell our own story.” —Stacey Abrams
  • “Friendly reminder that you don’t have to say the ‘n word’ to be racist. That’s not the sole requirement. Asking people to prove racism is another tool the oppressor uses to marginalize and discredit us.” —Lizzo
  • “The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” —Toni Morrison
  • “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” —Ijoema Oluo
  • “Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” —John Lewis
  • “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” —Alice Walker
  • “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” —Angela Davis
  • ”We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.” —Yvette Clarke

Black Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

  • “History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. –Michelle Obama
  • “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
  • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” – Thurgood Marshall
  • “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King
  • “If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” – Russell Simmons
  • “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” – Carol Moseley-Braun
  • “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson
  • “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Desmond Tutu
  • “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcom X
  • “It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
  • “Character is power.” – Booker T. Washington
  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Freedom is never given; it is won.” – A. Philip Randolph
  • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

Black Quotes

 

 Quotes About Dreams

  • “Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.” –Earl G. Graves, Sr.
  • “You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” – Maya Angelou
  • “Have a vision. Be demanding.” – Colin Powell
  • “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
  • “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” – Rita Dove
  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
  • “What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?” – Toni Morrison
  • “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” – Dr. Mae Jemison
  • “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” – Langston Hughes
  • “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” – Susan L. Taylor
  • “It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.” -Zora Neale Hurston
  • . “No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much.” Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.” – bell hooks
  • . “I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.” -Ntozake Shange
  • . “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde
  • . “We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou
  • . “I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” -Alice Walker
  • . “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
  • . “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -Toni Morrison
  • . “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • . “Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.” – Toni Morrison
  • . “Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.” – Patricia Hill Collins
  • . “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • . “Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.” ― Micere Githae Mugo
  • . “Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it’s not like living when you can only do what you doing.” ― Sapphire
  • . “A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
  • . “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • . “I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.” -Ntozake Shange
  • . “Let woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.” – Anna Julia Cooper
  • . “I don’t want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.” -Sista Soulja
  • . “Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.” ― Pearl Cleage
  • . “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou
  • . “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • . “Many times, what people call ‘writer’s block’ is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.” -Pearl Cleage
  • . “Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.” -Sister Souljah
  • . “Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing.” -Pearl Cleage
  • . “Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” -Alice Walker
  • . “You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.” ― Nikki Giovanni
  • . “Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” ― Nikki Giovanni
  • . “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” -Lorraine Hansberry
  • . “People who want to write either do it or they don’t. At last I began to say that my most important talent – or habit – was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.” ― Octavia E. Butler
  • . “People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.” –Lucille Clifton
  • . “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” ― June Jordan
  • . “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” -Angela Davis
  • “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” -Maya Angelou
  • “It is the duty of the younger Negro artist…to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful!'” -Langston Hughes (The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, The Nation)
  • “We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings…In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.” -Malcolm X (Black Revolution)
  • “Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” -Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)
  • “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin (As Much Truth As One Can Bear, New York Times) toni morrison
  • “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” -Toni Morrison (Nobel lecture, )
  • ‘Many and most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love and hate and fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider’s web holding fast to a doomed fly’s wings.” -Walter Mosley (When the Thrill Is Gone)
  • “Miracles happen all the time. We’re here, aren’t we?” -Marilyn Nelson (Abba Jacob and Miracles)
  • “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” -Zadie Smith (On Beauty) james baldwin author “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -James Baldwin (No Name in the Street)
  • “Nobody’s as powerful as we make them out to be.” -Alice Walker (The Third Life of Grange Copeland)

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Powerful Quotes Celebrating Black History Month

Over the years many black personalities like Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou and W.E.B. DuBois have fearlessly addressed pressing issues in society such as education, identity, equality and civil rights, and also presented new ideas that have helped shape the world as we know it today and made it a better place to live in.

For their dedicated effort, prophetic insights and creative output that includes introducing remarkable inventions and creating timeless fiction and nonfiction, these men and women have received numerous awards and accolades, including the Nobel Prize. In honor of these remarkable people and this great month, we’ve put together some powerful quotes from notable black writers you can share with friends and loved ones as you celebrate this special month, or any other day.

These quotes are not only uplifting, but also motivational. They have been a source of encouragement for millions of people around the world. Enjoy golden nuggets of wisdom from prominent black writers below.

  • W.E.B Dubois (African-American historian, activist and author).
  • “Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
  • Nikki Giovanni Jr. (African-American writer and educator).
  • “There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”
  • Toni Morrison (African-American novelist and professor)
  • “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
  • “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

Derek Walcott (St. Lucian poet and playwright).

 

  • “… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element….”

Maya Angelou (African-American author and poet).

  • “You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
  • George Washington Carver (African-American educator, scientist and inventor).
  • “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
  • Alice Walker (African-American author, poet and activist).
  • “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book.”
  • “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?”
  • Langston Hughes (African-American poet, novelist and playwright)
  • “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”
  • Booker T. Washington (African-American educator, author and orator).
  • “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
  • “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
  • Chinua Achebe (Nigerian novelist, poet and professor).
  • “The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”
  • Wole Soyinka (Nigerian writer, poet and playwright).
  • “I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”
  • “My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.”
  • Alex Haley (African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Roots”).
  • “In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it”
  • “Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues – which takes years.”
  • “Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

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Hustle Quotes

Top Hustle Quotes to Motivate You

The best way to get ahead in life is to never stop working, and these hustling quotes will motivate you to do just that.

If you know someone who works hard like you, share these hustle quotes with them so that the two of you can understand and embrace each other. You’ve probably heard the term ‘hustle’ a lot lately, but what exactly does it imply? It’s something that entrepreneurs do, millennials want, and successful people swear by.

Today, ‘hustle’ means pursuing your goals by devoting all of your time and energy to working harder than everyone else.

Doesn’t it appear to be straightforward? Many people claim to work all hours of the day and night. However, you’ll be astonished to learn that they have yet to achieve their objectives. To hustle implies to want something more than everyone else and be willing to work extra hours to get it. Often, this means skipping Netflix marathons or deferring vacation plans until the next month. Hustling necessitates making sacrifices.

However, it is through those losses that people can achieve what they truly desire. Abraham Lincoln, a previous president of the United States, spoke about hustling. From Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Douglass to Gary Vaynerchuk and Tony Robbins, all truly successful people have worked hard to get where they are now.

Have you set a goal for yourself that you’ve always wanted to achieve? Feeling a little stuck in your life? Maybe these hustling statements are just what you need to get started. Check out our collection of never give up quotes if you need some inspiration to keep going till you find your goldmine.

Top Hustle Quotes

Inspirational Hustle Quotes For Ambitious People

  • “Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.” – Garth Henrichs
  • “All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” – Jaymin Shah
  • “If it comes easy, it will go fast.” – Andrena Sawyer
  • “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
  • “Take a leap of faith on your dreams, not for me and not for the society, just for yourself.” – Vinay Garg
  • “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” – Marcus Washling
  • “Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.” – Constance Friday
  • “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
  • “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb.

Hustle Quotes To Motivate You

  • “When I was young, I observed that nine out of things I did were failures. So I did times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw
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  • “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.” – Sophia Loren
  • “We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.” – Farshad Asl
  • “If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman
  • “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
  • “All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” – Pope Paul VI
  • “Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
  • “As a winner, learn not to let negative comments affect you. Just treat it as firewood that feeds your fire. Soon that fire will be so big and so bright that those who criticized you will smell the smoke, even if they happen to be on the other side of the world.” – Kevin Abdulrahman
    Quotes about Hustling
  • “You’re either changing your life or you’re not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.” – Terri Guillemets
    Powerful Hustle Quotes About Doing Your Best
  • “You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.” – Akshay Vasu
    Quotes about Hustling
  •  “WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.” – Surgeo Bell
    If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to check out our collection of mindset quotes that will help take you where you want to go in life.
  •  “Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever. Just do you.” – Surgeo Bell
  •  “I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.” – Margaret Thatcher
  •  “If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.” – Henry Rollins
  •  “Hustle beats talent, when talent doesn’t hustle.” – Ross Simmonds
  • . “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller
  •  “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
  •  “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban

 

117 Hustle Quotes To Motivate and Inspire Your Grind (2021)

  •  “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
    Quotes about Hustling
    Hustle quotes to motivate you towards success
  •  “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin
  •  “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds
  •  “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving % all the time.” – Don Zimmer
  •  “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.” – Blair Waldorf
  •  “I love people, and the hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
  •  “Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.” – Ryan Seacrest
  •  “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
  •  “Hard work never killed a man.” – Scottish proverb
  •  “Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything.” – Neil Strauss
  •  “I’ve always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.” – Sumner Redstone
    Hustle quotes to help you get things done
  •  “Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.” – Patti Smith
  •  “Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a dance step – it’s an old business procedure.” – Fran Lebowitz
  •  “The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.” – Deepika Padukone
  •  “I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.” – Wade Boggs
  • “I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.” – Bebe Rexha
  •  “The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistence brings success.” – Ross Simmonds
  •  “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
  •  “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
  •  “Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” – Marica Wieder
  •  “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley

Hustle quotes to motivate and inspire you

  •  “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
  •  “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn
  •  “There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” – Hope Hicks
  •  “My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.” – Young Jeezy
  •  “Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.” – Tionne Watkins
  •  “The best kinds of people in your life aren’t those who gather to celebrate your success, but those who gather to help your hustle.” – Usman Ismaheel
  •  “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

Hustle Quotes

  •  “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.” – Helen Hanson
  •  “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer
  •  “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” –
    Vince Lombardi
    Hustle quotes that will challenge you to be the best version of yourself
  •  “Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.”― Jaymin Shah
  •  “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos
  •  “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”- Herb Kelleher
  •  “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous
  •  “Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”― Criss Jami
  •  “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
  •  “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –Lolly Daskal
  •  “You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you’ll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.”― Surgeo Bell
  •  “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
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  •  “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!”- Thoreau
  •  “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
  •  “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
  •  “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”- Vince Lombardi
  •  “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis
  •  “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

Hustle quotes to inspire success

  •  “I’m a firm believer in the hustle game.” – Eric Snow
  •  “I don’t want to spend all the money I’ve made and then have to hustle fight to fight.” – Brian Ortega
  •  “I still have to hustle to get jobs, audition and put myself out there.” – Ayda Field
  •  “For a long time, I’ve had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it’s been difficult for me to get a look-in.” – Rufus Sewell
  •  “There’s a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.” – Manny Machado
  •  “Music is my hustle.” – Pitbull
  •  “Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.” – Chris Sullivan
  •  “It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” – David Feherty
  •  “You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you’re willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I’ll make the first film that costs zero dollars.” – Nick Nolte
  •  “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

Hustle quotes to keep you going

  •  “Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.” – Steve Clevenger
  •  “In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.” – Joe Gebbia
  •  “This industry is all about work, and just because Sundance exposed me to the world, it is my job to stay deserving in that world. The work never ends; the hustle just get harder, and you get stronger!” – Gina Rodriguez
  •  “There’s a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.” – Fetty Wap

Hustle Quotes

  •  “Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.” – Natalie Massenet
  •  “Success in general is a well-balanced blend of luck, DNA, confidence, and hustle.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
  •  “A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, ‘You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,’ cuz my hustle led to opportunity.” – Yvonne Orji
  •  “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
  •  “Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.” – Jay Rock
  •  “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln

Hustle quotes to fire up your motivation

  •  “Everyone is where they are at because they worked hard for it. Don’t ever hate on someone’s hustle. Just figure out how you can get there.” – Jo Koy
  •  “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.”– Les Brown
  •  “Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil
  •  “The load on your shoulders today will be the ground that you walk on tomorrow.”– Nicole Addison
  •  “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
  •  “When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.”– Phil Knight
  •  “I’d rather hustle / than slave away -.” – Fat Joe
  •  “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
  •  “Hustle isn’t just working on the things you like. It means doing the things you don’t enjoy so you can do the things you love.” – Unknown
  •  “I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.”- Deshaun Watson
  •  “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
  •  “Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause it’s your life.”― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

More hustle quotes to inspire you

  •  “If you’re not willing to risk the usual, you’ll have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
  •  “Hustle like no one is awake.”– Jill Telford
  •  “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
  •  “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo
  •  “All my life, I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.” – Curtis Carlson
  •  “Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.”– J.R. Rim
  •  “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown
  •  “You can either complain about it or grind, I choose to grind.” ― Kyle Vidrine
  • “Today, I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
  • “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. – Colin Powell
  • “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe
  • “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” -Estee Lauder
  • “Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” -Andy Warhol
  • “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” -Audre Lorde

Hustle Quotes

 

  • “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl, “My Uncle Oswald”
  • “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”
    -Herb Kelleher, Co-founder of Southwest Airlines
  • “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
  • “Sometimes, you’ve got to work a little, so you can ball a lot.” -Tom Haverford
  • “Go to your desire and don’t hang around here.” -Jack Kerouac, “Big Sur”
  • “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!” -Thoreau
  • “Now tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver
  • “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” -Dolly Parton
  • “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.”  -Michael Jordan
  • “To be contented—that’s for the cows.” -Diana Vreeland
  • “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” -Vince Lombardi
  • “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs
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  • “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of, ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” -Marissa Mayer
  • “Make it work.” -Tim Gunn
  • “Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.” -Patti Smith
  • “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” – Tracy Jordan
  • “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
    -Oprah Winfrey
  • “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” Oprah
  • “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.” -Bill Murray
  • “Life is short. Don’t be lazy.” -Sophia Amoruso
  • “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    – Gabriel García Márquez
  • “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”
    -Stephen Hawking
  • “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
  • “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” -Virginia Woolf
  • Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. – Gary Vaynerchuk
  • You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. – Richard BransonWhen it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously. – Angela Duckworth
  • You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim RohnNobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas
  • The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.Go live a life worth living where, in the end, you’ll be able to say, “I’m glad I did,” not “I wish I had.” – Gary Keller
  • Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.Good things happen to those who hustle. – Anais Nin
  • All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do. – Jaymin ShahWhat you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving % all the time. – Don Zimmer
  • Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. – William James
  • My entire life can be summed up in four word – I hustled. I conquered.
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
  • Hustle beats talent everytime. – Jeremiah Say
  • Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda
  • Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan
  • Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
  • When I started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex. Now engaged to the game and married to success.
  • Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.
  • I know that if I fail I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing that I might regret is NOT TRYING. – Jeff Bezos
  • Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
  • Hustle isn’t just working on the things you like. It means doing the things you don’t enjoy so you can do the things you love.
  • Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. – Gordon B. Hinckley
  • To hustle is like being a farmer. Work first so you can enjoy all the fruits with your loved ones later. – Jeremiah Say
  • I rather hustle for a year than risk being a -to- slave forever. – Jeremiah Say
  • There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting. – Hope Hicks
  • Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. – Jerry Rice
  • Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. – Marica Wieder
  • Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns
  • All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
  • The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. – Robert Tew
  • The hustle brings the dollar. The experience brings the knowledge. The persistence brings success. – Ross Simmonds
  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
  • I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle. – Bebe Rexha
  • I’ve got a dream that’s worth more than my sleep.
  • I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle. – Wade Boggs
  • Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.

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  • The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest. – Deepika Padukone
  • I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
  • Do or do not; there is no try. – Yoda
  • It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. – Mark Cuban
  • Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything. – Neil Strauss
  • I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. – Estee Lauder
  • Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.
  • Look in the mirror – that’s your competition.
  • Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
  • He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
  • Success is never owned, it’s rented. And the rent is due everyday.
  • The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. – Vince Lombardi
  • Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. – Chinese Proverb
  • Mine’s a pretty simple strategy – there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. – Ryan Seacrest
  • A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell
  • Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. – Helen Hanson

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  • The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford
  • Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle. – Steve Clevenger
  • Hustle like you’re broke and keep that passion. – Jay Rock
  • Fortune sides with him who dares. – Virgil
  • I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want. – Deshaun Watston