100+ Inspirational One Words to Motivate You

Inspirational Words – I

1. Illuminate

• Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. – Thomas Aquinas

2. Imagination

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

3. Impact

• Every action we take impacts the lives of others around us. The question is: are you aware of Your impact? – Arthur Carmazzi

4. Improve

• Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. – Shigeo Shingo

5. Infinite

• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. – William Blake

6. Initiative

• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo

7. Innovate

• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat. – Steve Jobs

8. Insightful

• A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

9. Inspire

• Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. – Pablo Picasso

10. Integrity

• Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails. – Earl Nightingale

11. Interest

• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Inspirational Words – J

1. Joy

• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri J.M. Nouwen

2. Justice

• Law without justice is a wound without a cure. – William Scott Downey

3. Journey

• The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment. – Antonio Brown

Inspirational Words – K

1. Kindness

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. – Barbara De Angelis

2. Knowledge

• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. – Socrates

Inspirational Words – L

1. Laugh

• Laughing is, and will always be, the best form of therapy. – Dau Voire

2. Lead

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

3. Learn

• Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

4. Legacy

• If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that cannot be erased. – Maya Angelou

5. Liberate

• The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. – Albert Einstein

6. Live

• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

7. Limitless

• Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

8. Love

• A life lived in love will never be dull. – Leo Buscaglia

9. Loyalty

• If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. – Elbert Hubbard

Inspirational Words – M

1. Meaningful

• A meaningful life is one in which you deeply connect to your purpose. A person living life with purpose is a hero who gets up every day with a clear sense of who they are and what they are doing in the world. – Wayne Mellinger

2. Mindset

• Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. – Steve Maraboli

3. Mindfulness

• Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you– in your body, heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment. – Jan Chozen Bays

4. Motivate

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer

5. Movement

• Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. – Moshe Feldenkrais

Inspirational Words – N

1. Now

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha

2. New

• The magic of new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all. – Josiyah Martin

3. Nurture

• Monsters will always exist. There’s one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other. – Jacqueline Novogratz

Inspirational Words – O

1. Opportunity

• When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it. – Eddie Kennison

2. Optimism

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

3. Originality

• Originality is the best form of rebellion. – Mike Sasso

4. Overflowing

• An overflow of good converts to bad. – William Shakespeare

5. Overcome

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere

6. Outstanding

• Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. – Zig Ziglar

Inspirational Words – P

1. Passion

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. – Oprah Winfrey

2. Patience

• Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far. – Swahili Proverb

3. Peace

• Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

4. Perseverance

• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot

5. Persistence

• Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin

6. Persuade

• Persuasion can go through obstacles that force cannot. – Yusuf A. Leinge

7. Please

• You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. – Kris Carr

8. Possibility

• The possible is just the impossible that we’ve come to accept. – Stewart Stafford

9. Positive

• One small positive thought can change your whole day. – Zig Ziglar

10. Power

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu

11. Practice

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. – Mahatma Gandhi

12. Present

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bill Keane

13. Prosperity

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. – Calvin Coolidge

14. Prioritize

• The key is not to proritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey

Inspirational Words – Q

1. Quest

• He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. – Lev Grossman

2. Queen

• In every woman, there is a queen. Speak to the queen and the queen will answer. – Norwegian Proverb

Inspirational Words – R

1. Radiant

• When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. – Henri Nouwen

2. Redemption

• Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. – Evinda Lepins

3. Relentless

• Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. – Tim S. Grover

4. Respect

• Respect yourself and others will respect you. – Confucius

5. Rise

• What defines us is how well we rise after falling. – Zig Ziglar

Inspirational Words – S

1. Safe

• A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Grace Hopper

2. Satisfaction

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi

3. Self-control

• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

4. Serendipity

• Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries. – Alan Alda

5. Shine

• A star does not compete with other stars around it. It just shines. – Matshona Dhliwayo

6. Smile

• A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. – Tom Wilson

7. Spirited

• In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer

8. Strength

• Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. – Susan Gale

9. Success

• 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

10. Sustain

• All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. – Epictetus

Inspirational Words – T

1. Teach

• Teaching is the highest form of understanding. – Aristotle

2. Tenacious

• Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. – Oswald Chambers

3. Thankful

• Be present in all things and thankful for all things. – Maya Angelou

4. Trust

• Trust is the easiest thing in the world to loose and the hardest thing in the world to get back. – R. Williams

5. Triumph

• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine

Inspirational Words – U

1. Understand

• Understanding comes through communication, and through understanding we find the way to peace. – Ralph C. Smedley

2. Unique

• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. – Coco Chanel

3. Uplift

• Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. – Maya Angelou

Inspirational Words – V

1. Valiant

• For the valiant heart, nothing is impossible. – Jacques Couer

2. Value

• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

3. Victorious

• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. – John F. Kennedy

Inspirational Words – W

1. Willpower

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. – Dan Millman

2. Wisdom

• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

3. Worthy

• Worthy things happen to the worthy. – Plautus

Inspirational Words – Y

1. Yearn

• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships. – Vernon Howard

2. Yes

• Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. – Clarice Lispector

Inspirational Words – Z

1. Zeal

• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. – Khalil Gibran

2. Zen

• The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. – Koun Yamada