Inspirational and motivational quotes. Inspirational quotes can lift your spirits and provide crucial life lessons.
Below is a selection of most Inspirational quotes and sayings about life, love, happiness, success and work.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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
Everything you can imagine is real.
― Pablo Picasso
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue
that counts.
― Winston S. Churchill
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate: only love can do that.
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 which has been opened
for us.
― Helen Keller
We accept the love we think we deserve.
― Stephen Chbosky
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
me.
― C.S. Lewis
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely
ridiculous than absolutely boring.
― Marilyn Monroe
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to
achieve it.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll
join us. And the world will live as one.
― John Lennon
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
― Oscar Wilde
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person
then.
― Lewis Carroll
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
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life
interesting.
― Paulo Coelho
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which
is why we call it the present.
― Bill Keane
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If
you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
― Maya Angelou
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
― Thomas A. Edison
A person's a person, no matter how small.
― Dr. Seuss
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world.
― Albert Einstein
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right
for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
― Nicholas Sparks
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer
yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you
know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go.
― Dr. Seuss
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and
love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a
time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of
it--always.
― Mahatma Gandhi
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
― George Eliot
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
― Dalai Lama XIV
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
― Jack Dempsey
Peace begins with a smile.
― Mother Teresa
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
― Carol Burnett
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for
the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
― Gustave Flaubert
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.. It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
― C.S. Lewis
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
Whatever you are, be a good one.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
― Edith Wharton
May you live every day of your life.
― Jonathan Swift
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
― Swami Sivananda
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
― Thomas Szasz
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how
you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really
over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be
the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
― Haruki Murakami
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
― Rick Riordan
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more
potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope
always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.
― Robert Fulghum
Out of difficulties, grow miracles
― Jean de La Bruyere
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to
you. You have to go to them sometimes.
― A.A. Milne
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it
yet?
― L.M. Montgomery
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
― Aesop
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in
your heart.
― Roy T. Bennett
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
― Maya Angelou
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
― Haruki Murakami
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
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what
you can create.
― Roy T. Bennett
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
― Steve Jobs
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell
of heaven.
― John Milton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
― Isaac Newton
Positive quotes for inspiration
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| If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.―Dalai Lama |
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
― Henry Ford
Always do what you are afraid to do.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
― Alexander the Great
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else
can see.
― Arthur Schopenhauer
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
― Desmond Tutu
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned
thing in the world.
― John Green
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
― Norman Vincent Peale
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes
in the goodness in people.
― Roy T. Bennett
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
― Tony Robbins
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is
the worst kind of suffering.
― Paulo Coelho
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
― Arthur C. Clarke
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
― Isaac Asimov
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
― Sharon Begley
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's
hands.
― Roy T. Bennett
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
― Plato
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
― Roy T. Bennett
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
― Milton Berle
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.
Motivational quotes for new year 2023
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| If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.―Maya Angelou |
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
― Walt Whitman
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly,
you have to give up what weighs you down.
― Roy T. Bennett
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
― Francis of Assisi
Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect,
appreciate, and value you.
― Roy T. Bennett
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
― Robert Breault
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth.
― Arthur Conan Doyle
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
― Christian D. Larson
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you
know, and capable of more than you imagine.
― Roy T. Bennett
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
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your
dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and
opinions of others.
― Roy T. Bennett
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
― Confucius
Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too
short to be unhappy.
― Roy T. Bennett
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
― Dale Carnegie
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
― Steve Jobs
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to
change, grow, and transform.
― Roy T. Bennett
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
― Rabindranath Tagore
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
― Roy T. Bennett
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
― Cornelia Funke
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
― Voltaire
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
― Maya Angelou
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
― Paulo Coelho
Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the
people you choose to be around.
― Roy T. Bennett
Keep going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
― Roy T. Bennett
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
― Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
― Albert Schweitzer
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
― Dr. Seuss
Daily motivational quotes
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| Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.―Christian D. Larson |
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
― Roy T. Bennett
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
― Rick Riordan
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
― Mark A. Cooper
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
― Neil Gaiman
Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect,
appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile,
laugh, and feel loved.
― Roy T. Bennett
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
― Roy T. Bennett
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
― Rumi
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
― John A. Shedd
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
― Dalai Lama XIV
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
― Albert Einstein
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
― Steve Maraboli
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
― Langston Hughes
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you
respond to it.
― Roy T. Bennett
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
― Leonardo da Vinci
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
― Thomas Jefferson
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
― Roy T. Bennett
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
― Rumi
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
― Roy T. Bennett
To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.
― Roy T. Bennett
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
― Napoleon Hill
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Best motivational quotes to start your day
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| Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.―Confucius |
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed,
less stressed. More love, less hate.
― Roy T. Bennett
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
― C. JoyBell C.
Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
― Roy T. Bennett
What makes the desert beautiful' said the little prince 'is that somewhere it hides a well.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
― Will Rogers
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
― George Eliot
If you want to be happy, be.
― Tolstoy Leo
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
― Maya Angelou
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
― Roy T. Bennett
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
― Roy T. Bennett
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
― Roy T. Bennett
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
― Paulo Coelho
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
― Leo F. Buscaglia
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
― Anne Frank
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
― Nora Roberts
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
― Walt Disney Company
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you
plant.
― Robert Louis Stevenson
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a
place of learning, not a place of living.
― Roy T. Bennett
You never fail until you stop trying.
― Albert Einstein
Believe in Your Heart. Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
― Roy T. Bennett
Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
― Chico Xavier
Inspirational quotes
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| There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.―Edith Wharton |
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
― Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
― Roy T. Bennett
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
― Albert Einstein
The unexamined life is not worth living.
― Socrates
None but ourselves can free our minds.
― Bob Marley
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
― Martin Luther
You are not rich until you have a rich heart.
― Roy T. Bennett
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
― St. Francis Of Assisi
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
― Roy T. Bennett
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
― Paulo Coelho
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
― Roy T. Bennett
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
― John Anster
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other
people.
― Roy T. Bennett
I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
― Santosh Kalwar
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.
― Roy T. Bennett
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
― Christopher Paolini
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
― Barack Obama
Motivation quotes
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| Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.―Francis of Assisi |
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
― Moliere
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
― Mahatma Gandhi
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
― Lou Holtz
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
― Roy T. Bennett
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
― Louis L'Amour
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
― Lou Holtz
Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.
― Roy T. Bennett
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?
― Charles M. Schulz
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
― Norman Vincent Peale
Do one thing every day that scares you.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the
future, focus on living fully in the present.
― Roy T. Bennett
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
― Jonathan Safran Foer
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
― Rumi
The past has no power over the present moment.
― Eckhart Tolle
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
― Rick Riordan
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
― Maya Angelou
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
― Kurt Vonnegut
