Outstanding Inspiration Quotes!

100 famous life inspirational quotes for you!

Inspiration quotes on achievement

- Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) U.S. novelist, poet

- All great discoveries are made by those whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842-1933) U.S. clergyman, social reformer

- Create a dream and give it everything you have. You could be surprised by just how much you are capable of achieving.
Sarah Henderson (details unknown)

Inspiration quotes on action

- Strength is won by action.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) U.S. novelist, poet

- Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not—well, it's progress.
Sir Tom Stoppard (born 1937) Czechoslovakian-born U.K. playwright

Inspiration quotes on adversity

- Laugh about it.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- All limitations are self-imposed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) U.S. poet

- Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-born U.S. author, professor of biochemistry

- Do not be put off by momentary setbacks.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) U.S. Unitarian preacher, liberal theologian

- Delay is not denial. Delay may be a steppingstone to your reality.
Pastor Alex Royes, contemporary African-American keynote speakerv

- Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
William F. Halsey (1882-1959) U.S. Naval officer

- If what you’re doing isn’t working, doing more of it will not work any better.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

Inspiration quotes on attitude

- A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing.
Jay D. Allen (born 1969) Canadian inspirational author, seminar leader

- Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.
Sid Ascher, U.S. journalist, author, public relations expert

- You are free to create your experience with your thoughts.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- You can’t afford the self-indulgence of negative thinking.
Alexandra Innes (born 1952) U.K./Canadian author, YummyQuotes.com host

- Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet

- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Edward de Bono (born 1933) Maltese physician, author, inventor

- There are flowers everywhere for those who really want to see them.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French artist

- Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Anglo-Irish novelist

- We should tackle reality in a slightly humorous way; otherwise, we miss its point.
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) expatriate U.K. novelist, poet, dramatist

- When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) U.S. inspirational writer

- It's a great help if you can be kind and not underestimate the energizing capacities of kindness.
Camila Batmanghelidjh (born 1963) Iranian-born U.K. psychotherapist, social entrepreneur

- Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall, poet

- You are the master of your belief system and it is up to you to stop along the journey of life occasionally to give yourself a pat on the back.
Judy H. Wright, contemporary U.S. parenting, relationship, life coach

- My sense of my importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my sense of my own importance to myself is tremendous.
Noel Coward (1899-1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor, singer

Inspiration quotes on behaviour

- Who we are is what we do on a daily basis.
Jay D. Allen (born 1969) Canadian inspirational author, seminar leader

- That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.
Hillel (110BCE-10CE) Babylonian-born Jewish sage, leader

- If you only dwell in your own head you're going to be miserable.
Phillip Hodson (born 1946) U.K. psychotherapist, author

- Many people have brought disaster into their lives through idle words.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

- Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the Good.
Manasi Ashish (born 1982) Indian new-media artist

- The universe is noticing who you're being when nobody is looking, and that is the foundation that you are creating from.
Lynn Scheurell U.S. contemporary creative catalyst

Inspiration quotes on being yourself

- It’s OK to say I feel like doing it my own way.
Celine Dion (born 1968) French-Canadian singer

- If you are right with yourself, you are right with the universe.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull ((1919-1985) Canadian playwright, television writer, lecturer

- It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland (1891-1985) U.S. award-winning journalist, author

- The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average person is.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939) U.S. steel magnate

- Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland (1891-1985) U.S. award-winning journalist, author

- When we allow ourselves to feel our feelings, what should be intolerable becomes intolerable.
Kenny Loggins (born 1948) U.S. singer/songwriter

- Those who soar beyond the masses or appearances are not bound by time, season or personal limits.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- I’ve been criticized a lot for doing things my own way, but that never hurt me, because I don’t take it personally.
Shania Twain (born 1965) Canadian singer-songwriter

Inspiration quotes on cause and effect

- You have to think big to be big.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Live with great expectations, and great things happen.
Art Fettig, contemporary U.S. author, personal development speaker

- Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a state of torment.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

- Internal energies draw unto you matching conditions in daily experience.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Every situation is a blank slate upon which we project our beliefs, which create our entire life.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion (born 1934) U.S. novelist, journalist, screenplay writer

Inspiration quotes on change

- A true dream challenges the status quo.
Pastor Alex Royes, contemporary African-American keynote speaker

- The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
Harriet Lerner (born 1944) U.S. clinical psychologist, author

- If you eat well, exercise, meditate and don’t say bad things about other people, in two weeks your life will be transformed.
Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972) U.S. Oscar-winning actress

Inspiration quotes on creativity

- Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French artist

- One must also accept that one has “uncreative” moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) Dutch Jewish mystic, writer

Inspiration quotes on daring

- Fortune favours the brave.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet

- Leap, and the net will appear.
Julia Cameron (born 1948) U.S. poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher, author, artist

- Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet

- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills (born 1929) U.S. opera singer

- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Behan (1923-1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright

Inspiration quotes on destiny

- I am in the world to change the world.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) U.S. poet, political activist

- The moment an individual steps off the path to live the life that is destined for them, they attract like-minded individuals.
Derek Jessop, contemporary Canadian art gallery owner

Inspiration quotes on determination

- If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet

- If one finds oneself in the right, one goes forward even against men in the thousands.
Mencius (371-281 BC) Chinese philosopher

- To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle—a belief of some kind; a bumper sticker if you will.
Judith Guest (born 1936) U.S. novelist, screenwriter

Inspiration quotes on discipline

- You can control any situation if you first control yourself.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

- Self-discipline might seem to weigh pounds. But regret weighs tons.
Alexandra Innes (born 1952) U.K.-Canadian author, YummyQuotes.com host

- There is one thing that we are all able to control and that is how we think about what is going on around us.
Judy Piatkus, contemporary U.K. entrepreneur, personal development specialist

Inspiration quotes on effort

- If you plant enough seeds something will grow.
Dorothea Helms, contemporary Canadian award-winning writer, author

- Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman (1908-1984) U.S. actress, singer

- It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

Inspiration quote on excellence

- Nothing is too menial to practise excellence.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Inspiration quotes on failure

- Every master was once a disaster.
T. Harv Eker (born 1950s) Canadian personal development/success trainer

- We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) U.K. monarch for 64 years

- The greatest test of courage on the Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) U.S. social activist, orator

- It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) U.S. poet, political activist

Inspiration quotes on fear

- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers, PhD, contemporary U.S. personal development specialist

- Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

- Fears must be overcome because hidden beneath them is a true gift of strength.
Mark Husson, contemporary U.S. astrologer

- If we trusted our instincts more than our fears, we would make healthier decisions in line with our true desires.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- When fear is your guide, no choice is valuable. When peace and ease are at the heart of your choices, every step will bless you.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Inspiration quotes on imagination

- Our perception is determined by our imagination as well as by the empirical facts of the outside world.
Rollo May (1909-1994) U.S. existential psychologist, author

- The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) Austrian Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist

Inspiration quotes on integrity

- Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
Dr. Bernard Lown (born 1921) Lithuanian-born U.S. cardiologist, Nobel Prize-winning peace activist, author

- We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
Robert M. Pirsig (born 1928) U.S. philosopher, novelist

- In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- Sometimes the world tests our determination, and it is then up to us to stand for the values we hold dear, to hold to our integrity, no matter the cost.
Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (born 1954) Canadian Sikh, author, kundalini yoga instructor

Inspiration quote on intuition

- It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician, physicist

Inspiration quote on luck

- Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author of maxims

Inspiration quote on mastery

- The telling feature of a true master is poise.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Inspiration quotes on NOW

- Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- The only way to affect our future is by what we are doing in the present.
Jay D. Allen (born 1969) Canadian inspirational author, seminar leader

- There is only one way of preparing the new age, by living it even now in our hearts.
Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) Dutch Jewish mystic, writer

- If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
Hillel (110BCE-10CE) Babylonian-born Jewish sage, leader

- The more you can enjoy this moment, the more moments you'll create that are enjoyable in the future.
Louise Hay (born 1926) U.S. self-help author, publisher

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