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100 Inspirational Quotes
A short introduction
Inspirational quotes have a bad reputation because so many of them shout. The ones on this page try to lift you without treating you like a child. They come from people who suffered, built, taught, or wrote, and still found a sentence that helps a stranger begin.
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100 quotes
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs
“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”
Nelson Mandela
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Pablo Picasso
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
John Muir
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Maya Angelou
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
Maya Angelou
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
Jean de La Bruyère
“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start.”
J. B. Priestley
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Never give in — never, never, never, never.”
Winston Churchill
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali
“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
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Muhammad Ali
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day.”
Rumi
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become.”
Zig Ziglar
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese proverb
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Chinese proverb
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
Robin Sharma
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Confucius
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
Aristotle
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll see further.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
John Wooden
“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
Nelson Mandela
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
Peter Marshall
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Little by little, one travels far.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
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