Spring is a perfect time of year to consider new beginnings—whether you’re looking to launch a business, build stronger relationships, explore a new hobby, or change the trajectory of your career. If you’re ready to embrace a fresh start or plan your next adventure, here are some words of inspiration to get you moving and keep you going.
Ten inspiring quotes from MasterClass instructors
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- On finding your calling, by global multimedia icon Elaine Welteroth: “I genuinely believe that we were all born with a limitless sense of possibility and an unbridled confidence. It’s really the world that chips away at that. It’s time for you to do some soul-searching.”
- On projecting confidence, by Shonda Rhimes, the Golden Globe Award–winning creator of Grey’s Anatomy: “Remember that you belong in any room you enter. And if you don’t feel like you truly belong, act like you belong.”
- On creating your own path, by Emmy-nominated writer, actor, and producer Issa Rae: “If you don’t see what you want, make what you want to see.”
- On embracing the power of your voice, by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai: “I remind myself before all of my speeches that somebody might be listening to a speech right now, and it might change their life. It might change a girl’s life. A father might decide to send their daughters to school. A leader might decide that they will make better decisions for girls.”
- On discovering ideas that move you, by 15-time Grammy Award–winning musician Alicia Keys: “Something that’s really powerful is when you’re able to use the world around you to provoke you to begin to write. That’s a really powerful way to connect and know what you want to say because you’re personally touched by it in some way.”
- On following inspiration, by three-term U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo: “There’s great power in thinking about allowing. Allow poetry. Allow yourself. Allow the language. Allow the flower to be a flower. Allow heartbreak to be heartbreak.”
- On being resilient, by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Anyone who tries anything is going to fail from time to time. It’s an inevitable part of risk and ambition and reaching as hard and far as you can for what you care about or believe in.”
- On living a creative life, by award-winning choreographer Parris Goebel: “For me, my creative spirit is almost another person that lives within me, the child within me who never grew up. Stay playful, have fun, and don’t care about what people think. I think as a creative being, that’s just something I’ve never lost. Only you can see your vision. It’s important to find that relationship with yourself and strengthen that.”
- On giving back, by trailblazing creative leader Anna Wintour: “Particularly now, when things are so polarized and also divided, it is even more important for everyone, whatever you're doing, whatever path you choose or what career you decide to take, there is an innate sense of responsibility of giving back to the world, of understanding what you care about and what you can do.”
- On personal growth, by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn: “The world absolutely needs every single one of us to be all we can be and to realize that each one of us is a flower, a blossom. The world needs all its flowers. Let’s let our flourishing and our flowering really count by understanding the nature of our own hearts and our own minds.”
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