Inspirational Quotes
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
― Babe Ruth inspirational quote
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
― Joseph Campbell
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
― Grandma Moses
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
― Ayn Rand
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
― W. Clement Stone
The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.
― Bill Cosby
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
― John Lennon
We become what we think about.
― Earl Nightingale
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
― Mark Twain
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
― Charles Swindoll
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
― Alice Walker
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
― Buddha
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
― Chinese Proverb
An unexamined life is not worth living.
― Socrates
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
― Woody Allen
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
― Helen Keller
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
― Henry Ford
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
― Abraham Lincoln inspirational quote
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
― Norman Vincent Peale
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
― Benjamin Franklin inspirational quote
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
― Buddha
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
― Bill Copeland inspirational quote
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
― Audrey Hepburn
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
― Martin Luther inspirational quote
Hope is a waking dream.
― Aristotle inspirational quote
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
― Marie Curie inspirational quote
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
― Les Brown inspirational quote
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
― Joshua J. Marine inspirational quote
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
― Booker T. Washington
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do.
― Leonardo da Vinci
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
― Jamie Paolinetti inspirational quote
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
― Erica Jong
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
― Vince Lombardi inspirational quote
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
― Stephen Covey
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
― Pablo Picasso inspirational quote
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
― Christopher Columbus
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
― Maya Angelou inspirational quote
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
― Jim Rohn
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
― Henry Ford inspirational quote
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
― Mark Twain
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inspirational quote
The best revenge is massive success.
― Frank Sinatra
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
― Zig Ziglar inspirational quote
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
― Anais Nin
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
― Vincent Van Gogh inspirational quote
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
― Aristotle
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
― Jesus inspirational quote
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
― Henry David Thoreau inspirational quote
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
― Erma Bombeck inspirational quote
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
― Michael Jordan
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
― Oprah Winfrey inspirational quote
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
― Dalai Lama
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
― Maya Angelou
Dream big and dare to fail.
― Norman Vaughan inspirational quote
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
― Napoleon Hill inspirational quote
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
― Joseph Campbell
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
― Helen Keller inspirational quote
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
― Henry Rollins
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
― Babe Ruth inspirational quote
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
― Tony Robbins
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
― Gloria Steinem inspirational quote
It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
― Mae Jemison
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
― Beverly Sills inspirational quote
The best way out is always through.
― Robert Frost
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
― Edith Wharton inspirational quote
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
― Andre Gide inspirational quote
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
― Anne Frank
You change your life by changing your heart.
― Max Lucado inspirational quote
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
― Richard Bach
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
― Augustus Hare inspirational quote
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
― Ken Hensley
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
― Tony Robbins
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
― Arthur Young inspirational quote
A place for everything, everything in its place.
― Benjamin Franklin
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
― Theodore Roosevelt inspirational quote
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
― Abraham Joshua Heschel inspirational quote
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
― Vincent McNabb
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
― Thomas A. Edison inspirational quote
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
― Anne Frank
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
― Plato
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
― Henry Ward Beecher inspirational quote
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
― Joyce Meyer
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
― Fulton J. Sheen
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
― Tony Robbins inspirational quote
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
― Robert H. Schuller
Belief creates the actual fact.
― William James
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
― Alan Watts inspirational quote
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
― Steve Jobs
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
― Victor Hugo inspirational quote
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
― Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
― Napoleon Hill
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
― Albert Einstein inspirational quote
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
― Robert Frost
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
― Florence Nightingale inspirational quote
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
― Wayne Gretzky
I’ve missed more than 9000 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 most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
― Amelia Earhart inspirational quote
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
― Steve Jobs
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
― Booker T. Washington inspirational quote
Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
― Ancient Indian Proverb
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
― Theodore Roosevelt inspirational quote
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
― George Addair
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
― Plato inspirational quote
Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.
― Maimonides
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
― Arthur Ashe inspirational quote
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
― John Lennon
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
― Japanese Proverb
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
― Helen Keller inspirational quote
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
― Confucius
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
― Anne Frank inspirational quote
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
― Lao Tzu
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
― Maya Angelou inspirational quote
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
― Norman Vincent Peale
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
― Theodore Roosevelt
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
― Ronald Reagan inspirational quote
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
― Thomas Jefferson
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
― Rabindranath Tagore inspirational quote
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
― Thomas Merton
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
― Jimmy Dean inspirational quote
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
― Swami Sivananda
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
― Lao Tzu inspirational quote
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
― Arthur Ashe
Enthusiasm moves the world.
― Arthur Balfour inspirational quote
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
― Kevyn Aucoin
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
― Leo Buscaglia inspirational quote
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
― Audrey Hepburn
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
― Jim Rohn
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
― Democritus inspirational quote
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
― Muhammad Ali
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
― Pope John XXIII inspirational quote
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
― Buddha
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
― Nido Qubein inspirational quote
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
― Plutarch
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
― Jim Elliot inspirational quote
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
― Dalai Lama
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
― Sheryl Sandberg inspirational quote
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
― Aristotle inspirational quote
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
― Latin Proverb
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
― Unknown
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
― Bob Dylan inspirational quote
I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
― Benjamin Franklin
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
― Bill Cosby inspirational quote
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
― Albert Einstein
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
― Chinese Proverb
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
― Roger Staubach inspirational quote
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
― George Eliot
You become what you believe.
― Oprah Winfrey inspirational quote
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
― Vincent van Gogh
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
― George Eliot inspirational quote
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
― Mahatma Gandhi
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
― Benjamin Disraeli inspirational quote
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
― Unknown
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
― Ann Landers inspirational quote
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
― Abigail Van Buren inspirational quote
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
― Farrah Gray
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.
― Jesse Owens inspirational quote
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
― Sir Claus Moser
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
― Rosa Parks
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
― Confucius inspirational quote
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
― Amelia Barr
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
― Mary Kay Ash inspirational quote
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
― Teddy Roosevelt
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
― Eleanor Roosevelt inspirational quote
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”
― Audrey Hepburn
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
― Aristotle Onassis inspirational quote
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
― Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
― Steve Jobs
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
― Zig Ziglar inspirational quote