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Famous Inspirational Quotes
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
- “Work hard in silence; let success make the noise.”
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
- “Limit your “always” and your “nevers.”” – Amy Poehler
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.”
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” – Macklemore
- “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else.”
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!”” – Audrey Hepburn
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
- “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
- “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
- “Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
- “Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” – Brian Tracy
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
- “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
- “The strength of a team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
- “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer F
- “Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “Never say ‘No’, never say ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. All the power is within you. You can do anything.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
- “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy
- “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
- “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” – Michelle Obama
- “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu
- “Anytime you doubt yourself, remember, you are a strong soul who shines after any storm. You can literally get through anything. You have demonstrated that time and time again. Keep going. Keep shining! You got this!” – Kristen Butler
- “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
- “Dream it. Believe It. Build It.”
- “You are amazing. Remember that.”
- “Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle.”
- “Design is intelligence made visible.”
- “You get what you give.” – Jennifer Lopez
- “The dream is free, the hustle is sold separately.”
- “Consistency is more important than perfection.”
- “There is no failure. You either win or you learn.”
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
- “Spread love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “Change the world by being yourself.” – Amy Poehler
- “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” – LeBron James
- “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
- “Be yourself, but always your better self.” – Karl G. Maeser
- “Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
- “If you want to succeed, focus on changing yourself, not others.”
- “Surround yourself with people who are going to lift you higher.”
- “To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage.” – Confucius
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
- “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Don’t worry if you’re not where you want to be yet. Great things take time.”
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right..” – Henry Ford
- “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
- “Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”
- “God designed you the way you are for a purpose. Everything about you is unique!”
- “Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.” – Mason Cooley
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
- “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “Education is most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
- “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
- “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” – Helen Keller
- “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” – Will Rogers
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.’” – Les Brown
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “It doesn’t matter what’s been written in your story so far, it’s how you fill up the rest of the pages that counts.”
- “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Be patient. Be positive. The right opportunities present themselves when you’re ready and open to receiving.” – Kristen Butler
- “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
- “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordon, Sports: Former Basketball Player
- “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
- “Helping others, encouraging others. are often acts of kindness that have more meaning that you may realize.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
- “I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.” – Jenny Han
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
- “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
- “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
- “Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai
- “It’s Monday. It’s the start of a new week. God is doing new things. New doors. New breaks. Prepare your mind for blessings. Enlarge your vision.”
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” – Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley quote)
- “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” – Maya Angelou
- “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
- “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” – Kevin Hart
- “Every day is a chance to be better.”
- “How we live is what makes us real.”
- “Focus on your goal. Don’t look in any direction.”
- “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “It’s not how big the house is, it’s how happy the home is.”
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
- “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
- “Your life only gets better when you get better.” – Brian Tracy
- “Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some Honors!”
- “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
- “The value of life is revealed when it confronts death from close quarters.”
- “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
- “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” – George Clooney
- “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
- “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.” – Glennon Doyle Melt
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra
- “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.”
- “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher
- “Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson
- “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” – Brian Tracy
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “Life is too short. Make the most of it. You don’t know when your last day is. Live the way you want to live.”
- “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are diamonds.” – Gina Barreca
- “Don’t forget, while you’re busy doubting yourself, someone else is admiring your strength.” – Kristen Butler
- “Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do.” – Brian Tracy
- “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump
- “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
- “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson Sr.
- “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
- “God promises to make something good out of the storms that bring devastation to your life.” – Romans 8:28 (Bible Verse)
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
- “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” – Celine Dion
- “The Christian does not think that God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Dumbledore, Movie: “Harry Potter”
- “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington
- “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life has knocked me down a few times. It has shown me things I never wanted to see. I have experienced sadness and failures. But one thing for sure, I always get up.”