Best Quotes For Custom Wall Art

Ready to upgrade your wall art to something that brings your living room to life, showcases your unique personality, or matches your other inspirational art? If so, consider adding quotes to your wall art collection. From unique typography to family rules, this list of quotes will help you right just the right words to help you express yourself.

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Short Wall Art Quotes

Sometimes the smallest messages have the biggest impact. These short quotes for wood wall art look great in picture frames, on gallery walls, and anything in between. Pick your favorite quote or saying from those below, or use them to inspire a message all your own.

Wall art and graduation cards.

  • “Don’t quit your daydream.”
  • “Coffee and love.”
  • “First I drink coffee.”
  • “You are my sunshine.”
  • “She believed she could so she did.”
  • “Be your own kind of beautiful.”
  • “New adventures.”
  • “Believe, achieve, succeed.”
  • “Eat drink and be thankful.”
  • “Be the reason someone smiles.”
  • “Live every moment.”
  • “All things are possible.”
  • “Dance in the rain.”
  • “Rainbows and stars.”
  • “Tame dragons.”
  • “Time to drink champagne.”
  • “Good Vibes Only.”
  • “Discover new oceans.”
  • “Do More of What Makes You Happy.”
  • “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman
  • “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
  • “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
  • “We convince by our presence.” – Walt Whitman
  • “I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
  • “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
  • “Create each day anew.” – Morihei Ueshiba
  • “Great hopes make great men.” – Thomas Fuller

Inspirational Quotes

You can showcase the following inspiration quotes on anything from chalkboards, to framed art, to indoor wood signs. Whichever inspirational life quotes you choose, the medium is up to you.

  • “Not all who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “Collect moments not things.” – Aarti Khurana
  • “It Always Seems Impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.” – Blaise Pascal
  • “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great
  • “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
  • “Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.” – Edward Young
  • “Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.” – Christa McAuliffe
  • “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine
  • “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peal
  • “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.” – Michelangelo
  • “Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.” – Christa McAuliffe
  • “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.” – Les Brown
  • “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine
  • “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” – Napoleon Hill
  • “Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.” – John Wooden
  • “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
  • “We are here to make another world.” – W. Edwards Deming
  • “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
  • “Mankind is made great or little by its own will.” – Friedrich Schiller
  • “Act like you expect to get into the end zone.” – Christopher Morley
  • “For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.” – Wallis Simpson
  • “Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.” – Morihei Ueshiba

Life Quotes for Canvas

The following life quotes are perfect additions to any canvas print in your home. And if you’re looking for more inspiration, make sure to visit our additional canvas quote ideas. You’re guaranteed to find something you’ll love.

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  • “Be the change you want to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
  • “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • “A place for everything, everything in its place.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” – Tony Robbins
  • “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
  • “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks
  • “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu
  • “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
  • “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir
  • “The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.” – Phillips Brooks
  • “From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.” – Guru Nanak
  • “The authentic self is the soul made visible.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • “It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.” – Anatole France
  • “The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.” – Emile Zola
  • “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – Andre Gide
  • “I want to make this world perfect.” – Malala Yousafzai
  • “Ideas shape the course of history.” – John Maynard Keynes
  • “Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.” – William Morris
  • “Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller
  • “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu
  • “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
  • “Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.” – Albert Camus
  • “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Unknown
  • “The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank

Wall Art Quotes for a Kids Room

Looking to redecorate your child’s room? Consider adding wall stickers, art plaques, or any other inspirational quotes wall art using the messages below. Your kid will love it!

quote art print with photo of mother and daughter

  • “What if I fall? Oh my darling, what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson
  • “Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
  • “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
  • “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
  • “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” – Francis of Assisi
  • “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
  • “From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.” – Aeschylus
  • “A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” – Joyce Meyer
  • “I write to create myself.” – Octavia E. Butler
  • “Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “One today is worth two tomorrows.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius
  • “Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “Every story I create, creates me.” – Octavia E. Butler
  • “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius
  • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

I Love You Quotes for Art Prints

The following wall art quotes will help you say “I love you.” Use them to create the perfect gift or to display in your home. Make sure to check out our framed prints to design the perfect wall art with your chosen quotes.

Family rules wall art.

  • “God loves to help him who strives to help himself.” – Aeschylus
  • “The things that we love tell us what we are.”  – Thomas Aquinas
  • “I love those who yearn for the impossible.”  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” – William Ellery Channing
  • “I love those who yearn for the impossible.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

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