50 Motivational “You Got This” Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Strength

Having a belief in your own ability is one of the most important shifts in mindset that one must make to living life to its fullest potential. In psychology, this is known as self-efficacy: how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations.

This is not the same thing as finding every challenge easy to overcome. The world is full of all kinds of obstacles. The key to self-efficacy is internalizing the belief that you can face challenges and persevere despite them.

You’ve Got This: Inspirational Quotes to Remind You of Your Greatness

It’s one thing to acknowledge the need for self-efficacy. It’s another thing to think and feel it, to truly believe it.

As I’ve written before, the best way to change your your mindset is to regularly remind yourself of the positive and productive truths about yourself. There are times when you can’t avoid feeling down and what you really need is someone to tell you, “You got this.”

I find motivational quotes to be one of the best sources of these reminders because they act a little like distilled nuggets of wisdom that you can deploy at any time. Keeping a personal manifesto is one great way to keep your most valuable quotes at hand to inspire you when you need them.

Next time you need a, “You got this,” I hope one of these quotes will come in handy:

You Got This: Quotes on Overcoming Obstacles

One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart. ― Linda Poindexter

Strength and Growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. — Napoleon Hill

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. ― Dalai Lama

Behind every successful man, there’s a lot of unsuccessful years. — Bob Brown

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. — Christopher Reeve

I’ve never met a person with an easy past. — Atticus

You Got This: Quotes on Having a Growth Mindset

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it. — Kevin Hart

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.― Maya Angelou

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want and believe you can have it. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. — Socrates

If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is. — Catherine Pulsifier

You Got This: Quotes on Facing Your Fears

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. ― Cheryl Strayed

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark Twain

What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing. — Jamie Foxx

Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You Got This: Quotes on Taking Action

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this. — Scott Stabile

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. — William W. Purkey

Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you. — Mark Cuban

Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King

The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. — Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama

You Got This: Quotes on Acceptance

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

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. ― Vivian Greene

There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. — Tim Ferriss

You Got This: Quotes on Getting Back Up Again

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. ― Henry Rollins

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. ― Bob Marley

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. — Karen Marie Moning

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. — Drew Barrymore

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. ― Tennessee Williams

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves. — Terence McKenna

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. — Robert Tew

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances. — Unknown

You Got This: Quotes on Inner Strength

She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell. — Nikita Gill

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. — Elizabeth Taylor

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. — Søren Kierkegaard

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. — Nikos Kazantzakis

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is. — Anne Frank

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You Got This: Quotes on Facing the Odds

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman

Impossible is just an opinion. — Paulo Coelho

If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it. — Elon Musk