Whether you’re sprucing up your living room, putting together your new office space or just adding color to your bedroom, a motivational wall quote is a great way to keep you and your family inspired.
Below, we gathered over 60 motivational quotes to add to any living space. Paint them directly on your wall or print them on decals to create a beautifully decorated living space. Surround your quote with hanging wall art or framed photos of your family to complete the look.
On Family
- “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” —Mother Teresa
- “The most important thing is family and love.” —John Wooden
- “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach
- “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” —George Santayana
- “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” —Brad Henry
- “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” —Anthony Brandt
- “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” —Michael J. Fox
- “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” —Desmond Tutu
- “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” —Albert Einstein
- “Family is a lifejacket in the stormy sea of life.” —J.K. Rowling
- “Family is anyone who loves you unconditionally. ” —Unknown
- “Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
On Love
- “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” —Lucille Ball
- “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
- “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” —George Sand
- “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” —Seneca
- “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” —Rumi
- “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” —Marcus Aurelius
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha
- “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” —Oscar Wilde
On Success
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston S. Churchill
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
- “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” —Unknown
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb
- “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” —T. Roosevelt
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney
- “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” —Nikos Kazantzakis
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs
- ” We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” —Dr. Henry Link
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
On Life
- “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” —Leo Buscaglia
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Seuss
- “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” —Harvey Fierstein
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” —Gerard Way
- “Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.” —Unknown
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” —William W. Purkey
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
- “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” —Les Brown
- “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.” —Mae West
- “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” —Oscar Wilde
- “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” —Gary Keller
Funny Motivational Quotes
- “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” —Winnie the Pooh
- “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” —Charles Schulz
- “Bad decisions make good stories.” —Ellis Vidler
- “Think like a proton. Always positive.” —Unknown
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
- “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” —Robin Williams
- “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” —Will Rogers
- “Be happy – it drives people crazy.” —Unknown
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” —Audrey Hepburn
- “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” —Marilyn Monroe
- “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
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