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Multimedia projects are made to invoke something. A poster can instruct or excite. A card sends a message. Even wallpaper on a desktop can motivate.

Choosing the right inspirational quote can make your message soar right out of the park. Browse the full collection of inspirational quotes organized by target message, and take your pick of the best.

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Inspirational quotes about life.

Inspirational quotes about life have the power to draw people out of the fog and evoke moments of joy, wonder, and excitement. These quotes are often used in posters and wallpapers as powerful reminders of the cards we’re dealt in life — and how to best play the game.

Inspirational quotes about life are some of the most powerful quotes out there. Take your pick of the quote with the right message, and wherever you use it, it will inspire a healthy dose of “ah-ha” and the satisfaction of a renewed outlook.

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“It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.”

Charles Dickens

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”

Hans Christian Andersen

“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

William James

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Short inspirational quotes.

Sometimes, the inspirational quote you seek must be short. Maybe you’re playing with inspirational quotes in a card, or you can only fit a few characters onto a product package. Maybe you know that your audience’s attention is short, and you want to get to the point in an instant.

Whatever the reason, short inspirational quotes are a favorite go-to for quick impact. Take your pick of these short inspirational quotes that compel your audience with instant life insights.

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hope is a waking dream.”

Aristotle

“Hope is the last thing ever lost.”

Italian proverb

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

Maxine Hong Kingston

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.”

Emanuel Cleaver

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The sun is new each day.”

Heraclitus

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

Victor Hugo

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle

“Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Know thyself.”

Delphic Maxim

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

Lao Tzu

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Desmond Tutu

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

Amelia Earhart

Inspirational morning quotes.

Some of the best inspirational quotes are perfect to get us motivated in the mornings. (Some of these are especially on-point for Monday mornings.) These inspirational quotes remind us why we get up every day. They also set us up to put our best foot forward.

What inspirational morning quote does your audience need to feel motivated? Some of these quotes are the best out there for team inspirational posters. Take your pick of these inspirational quotes and the dawn will shine even brighter for it.

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“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

Shel Silverstein

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

Bernard Williams

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

Robert H. Schuller

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The early morning has gold in its mouth.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”

Rumi

“Hope is the thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”

Barack Obama

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

Richard Whately

“It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”

Charles Spurgeon

How to turn inspirational quotes into eye-catching designs.

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Select your favorite inspirational quote.

Pick a quote that matches the mood or message you want to share.

Choose a design style.

Open Adobe Express and browse templates. You can select classic, modern or artistic styles that suit your inspirational quote.

Emphasise the words.

Place the quote in a prominent position. Try different fonts and layouts to make it attractive.

Enhance the visual appeal.

Add supporting visuals, frames, colors or filters to enhance the quote without distracting from it.

Share your creation.

Download or post directly from Adobe Express, ensuring the quote is clear, inspiring and visually appealing.

Inspirational quotes for women.

There are certain inspirational quotes that speak to women and their shared experiences in the face of inequality.

These inspirational quotes for women are also by women. Each is a nod to both historic and ongoing challenges. Through the lens of unequal rights, double social standards, and disparate pay, these hand-picked inspirational quotes for women each sends a powerful message.

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“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.”

Susan Griffin

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”

Amanda Gorman

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”

Sarah J. Maas

“Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.”

Catherine Pulsifer

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have, because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.”

Michelle Obama

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“The best protection any woman can have is courage.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë

“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”

Louise Otto

“Never limit yourself because others' limited imagination, never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”

Mae Jemison

Inspirational quotes for work.

Everyone needs some inspirational quotes for work at some point. These quotes inspire motivation to get things done, act creatively, and work well together in a team.

Take your pick of these inspirational quotes for work and you could help a lot of people get through tough days. A wallpaper with one of these quotes can keep delivering the message all day long.

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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

Victor Hugo

“In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.”

Fritz Knapp

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Helen Keller

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

William Faulkner

“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.”

Jan Dargatz

“Fear never builds the future, but hope does.”

Joe Biden

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”

Samuel Smiles

“You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Woodrow Wilson

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

Aristotle

“Without labor nothing prospers.”

Sophocles

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Hope is the thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”

Barack Obama

Funny inspirational quotes.

There are times when an inspirational quote really has to be funny. Maybe you need a funny quote to break the ice or to get people’s attention. The great thing about funny inspirational quotes is that they make you laugh first, and then their meaning sinks in more memorably. This gives them a more lasting impact.

These quotes are especially handy to use on posters and cards. Take your pick of these funny inspirational quotes to tweak the tone of a project to something lighthearted, fun-loving, and downright enjoyable.

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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Jack London

“Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.”

Nanea Hoffman

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

Oscar Wilde

“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.”

Bo Bennett

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”

Charles M. Schulz

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”

Nanea Hoffman

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”

Oscar Wilde

Cute inspirational quotes.

Cute inspirational quotes warm the heart as much as they open the mind. These hand-picked quotes make clever plays on word; they make you smile; and they’re appropriate for all audiences.

Take your pick of these cute inspirational quotes to drive a message home with a smile. Imagine using one of these in a card, and you can bet it’s one the receiver will keep.

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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”

Emily Dickinson

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

Jonas Salk

“Remember: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Stephen King

“Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith.”

Toba Beta

“A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.”

Howard Thurman

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

Gustave Flaubert

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Aesop

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle

Spiritual inspirational quotes.

There are moments when inspirational quotes need to touch more than our minds. When it’s the soul that hurts, spiritual inspirational quotes act as a balm. These inspirational quotes are perfect for cards that are sent during hard times.

Take your pick of these spiritual inspiration quotes and the impression you leave will be one of peace.

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“The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love, and hope.”

Wilfred Peterson

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

Laini Taylor

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

Nelson Mandela

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

Stephen Ambrose

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”

Swami Vivekananda

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express online editor has tons of free templates and quick and easy customization options to put your favorite inspirational quotes to work. If you want to play with inspirational quotes in cards, posters, wallpaper, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.

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