Inspiring Quotes
Inspiring quotes can elevate our moods, motivate us when needed, and give us a new way of thinking.
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Inspiring Quotes
1.) It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
2.) Do not set yourself on fire in order to keep others warm.
Unknown
3.) Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
4.) In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Caleb
5.) It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
Steve Jobs
Good Inspiring Quotes
6.) Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
7.) In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
8.) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.
Robert Frost
9.) If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If it did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Charlotte Bronte
10.) Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
11.) Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
12.) Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers
13.) Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
14.) The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
15.) Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Horace
Be the Best You Can Be Sayings
16.) Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
17.) True education combines intellect, beauty, and goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness.
Helen Keller
18.) Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Horace
19.) It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
20.) Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
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Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
21.) It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
22.) In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
23.) We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
24.) We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison
25.) Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
26.) Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Unknown
27.) Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Proverb
28.) To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
29.) If, at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
30.) If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Best Inspirational Quotes
31.) You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish proverb
32.) Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful that’s what matters to me.
Steve Jobs
33.) If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright — See Wright Brothers’ Day
34.) Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
35.) As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
36.) What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
37.) Diligence is the Mother of Good Luck.
Benjamin Franklin
38.) In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
39.) If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now, put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
40.) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
Quotes For Inspiration
41.) Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Benjamin Franklin
42.) Perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
43.) Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Unknown
44.) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45.) Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
46.) Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
47.) A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
48.) No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
49.) Character is like a tree, and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Motivational Quotes
50.) Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
51.) No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
52.) Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible.
George Leonard
53.) Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
54.) Man is not a creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
55.) Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder
56.) Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
57.) Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
58.) A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb
59.) Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
60.) It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
Great Quotes to Inspire
61.) It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
62.) Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood
63.) I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison
64.) I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
65.) The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
66.) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
67.) 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
68.) To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Unknown
69.) You can do anything, but not everything.
Unknown
70.) An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Positive Quotes
71.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
72.) Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
73.) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
74.) You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
75.) Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
76.) Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
77.) The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
78.) We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
79.) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Short Inspiring Quotes
80.) A dead-end street is a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd
81.) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
82.) Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
83.) It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
84.) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
85.) Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
86.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
87.) You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane Von Furstenberg
88.) Anything is possible. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
89.) Make each day your masterpiece.
John Wooden
Encouraging Quotes
90.)Do the best you can until you know better. then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
91.) Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
92.) You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer
93.) Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
94.) Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden
95.) Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
96.) 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
Uplifting Quotes
97.) Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
98.) There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
99.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
100.) Make the most of yourself -for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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