Your Best Inspirational Life Quote!



100 inspirational life quotes for you to pick from!

Pick your best inspirational life quote on achievement

- What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Otto Rank (1884-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher, therapist

- High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch artist

- If you learn to do seemingly unimportant daily tasks with love and quality, when it comes time to achieve big things, you will have all the skill and experience you need.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on action

- The way to enrich your heart isn’t just by sitting around.
Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972) U.S. Oscar-winning actress

- Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, civil-rights activist

- The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps—we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner (1901-1986) U.S. Baptist minister, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on adversity

- The tide always comes in again.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Nothing can stop you but yourself.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- Things are only impossible until they're not.
Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV show)

- A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) African-American jazz composer, pianist, bandleader

- It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
Celine Dion (born 1968) French-Canadian singer

Rainbow halo in the sky

- The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton (born 1946) U.S. country music singer/songwriter, actress

Pick your best inspirational life quote on asking

- Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny’d.
Thomas Herrick (details unknown)

- If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on attitude

- We usually get what we anticipate.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- "Reality" should always be in quotes.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) U.S. architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, visionary

I am sure there is magic in everything.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) English–born U.S. playwright, author

- Everything is energy; what you do with it is up to you.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) U.S. general who brought democracy and religious freedom to Japan

- Nothing on Earth can resist a completely non-resistant person.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher

Pick your best inspirational life quote on behaviour

- One must listen if one wishes to be listened to.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author of maxims

- If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated.
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) Burmese political prisoner of conscience

- The labour of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author of maxims

- It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
Addison Walker (details unknown)

- Sometimes it’s necessary to think like a hero in order to behave like a decent human being.
May Sarton (1912-1995) Belgian-born U.S. poet, novelist

- If you’ve got a firm grasp on your purpose, then when your feelings are swaying you, you can keep your behaviour directed.
David K. Reynolds, Ph.D., contemporary psychotherapist, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on being yourself

- To create one’s own world takes courage.
Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986) U.S. painter

- If you don’t run your own life, someone else will.
John Atkinson (1923-2003) U.S. psychologist

- Know the story of your culture and be proud of your ancestors.
Romana Banuelos (born 1925) business owner, first Latina Treasurer of the U.S. 1971-1974

- I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- Some people march to a different drummer—and some people polka.
Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Pick your best inspirational life quote on believing

- You are not a realist unless you believe in miracles.
Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) third President of Egypt

- If you believe, then you hang on—what can stop you? If I don’t make it today, I’ll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) U.S. Academy Award-winning actress

Pick your best inspirational life quote on cause and effect

- Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- The beliefs we hold create the results we manifest.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Heavenly sunrise

- How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
Dr. David Suzuki (born 1936) Canadian scientist, environmentalist, broadcaster

- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig (born 1928) U.S. philosopher, novelist

- If you complain about what you have or do not have, the universe takes you at your word and gives you more to complain about.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- If your spirit is at peace, you will attract everything you need. If your heart is not satisfied, nothing you attract will get you what you want.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on change

- The real revolution’s in your mind.
Kevin Courrier, contemporary Canadian journalist, author

- Change is often a slow, bumpy process.
Harriet Lerner (born 1944) U.S. clinical psychologist, author

- If you make different mental, emotional or attitudinal choices, you will create different results.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on choices

- When you honour your unique inclinations, they will guide you to your next step.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- The only thing more important than the choices you make is the reason you make them.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- When confronted with a decision, imagine for a moment that money is not a factor, and you will see more clearly what to do.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on creativity

- You can’t rush creativity.
Shania Twain (born 1965) Canadian singer-songwriter

- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply moulding one’s inner life. And that, too, is a deed.
Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) Dutch Jewish mystic, writer

Pick your best inspirational life quote on daring

- Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M. C. Escher (1898-1972) Dutch-Frisian graphic artist

- Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice (born 1943) first African-American mayor of Seattle

- Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Joan L. Curcio, contemporary U.S. educator, writer

- Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio, contemporary U.S. educator, writer

Pick your best inspirational life quote on destiny

- All of us are born for a reason.
Danny Thomas (1912-1991) U.S. comedian, TV/film actor, hospital founder

- Dreams are like letters from God. Isn’t it time you opened your mail?
Marie Louise von Franz (1915-1998) German-born Swiss Jungian psychologist

- To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger.
Frederick Buechner (born 1926) U.S. author, theologian

Pick your best inspirational life quote on determination

- A man who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything.
Peter Marshall (details unknown)

- We need to stand up for what we believe in and stick with it and not be scared when no one else is doing it.
Ana Serrano, contemporary Canadian Film Centre Media Lab director

Pick your best inspirational life quote on discipline

- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian author

- Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews (born 1935) English film-and-stage actress, singer

Pick your best inspirational life quote on effort

- Every time I do something, it is entirely my whole self or not at all.
Celine Dion (born 1968) French-Canadian singer

- You can’t expect to get the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson (1933-1998) U.S. comedian, actor

- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewig (born 1921) U.S. writer

- It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Elinor Smith (born 1911) U.S. pioneering aviatrix

Pick your best inspirational life quote on expressing yourself

- A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s only a whisper.
Barry Neil Kaufman contemporary U.S. self-empowerment author, trainer

Pick your best inspirational life quote on faith

- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Sir Martin Rees (born 1942) English astronomer, astrophysicist

- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they seenothing but sea.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

- Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on fear

- Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) U.S. author

- He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

- Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy (1899-1975) Hungarian-born U.S. children’s writer, illustrator

- If we build our world on fear, every action that follows on its heels will result in self-diminution because we erected our world on a misunderstanding.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on the future

- You can't move forward if you are looking backward.
Cesar Millan (born 1969) Mexican-American dog-behaviour specialist

- You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- My interest is in the future… because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

Pick your best inspirational life quote on goals

- Be wary of people who tell you, “Get real!” Usually they mean, “Get small!”
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Your authenticity is the most direct route to achieve your goals and to help others achieve theirs.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on grace

- Grace opens the flow again.
Lynn Scheurell, contemporary .U.S. creative catalyst

- As you maintain grace under fire, you emerge triumphant.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

Rainbow in a cloud explosion against a blue sky

Pick your best inspirational life quote on hope

- Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.
Terry Cole-Whittaker (born 1939) U.S. spiritual leader

- If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) Canadian Hollywood movie star

- In this life, anything can happen—and what can help bring it to pass is Hope.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

Pick your best inspirational life quote on integrity

- Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin (1943-1970) U.S. 1960s blues-rock singer

- The integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) U.S. architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, visionary

Pick your best inspirational life quote on open-mindedness

- What you wish to be true can be true, but you must be open to allowing it.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French novelist, essayist, critic

- For you who will open your minds the light will pour in with dazzling white brilliancy.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author

- Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.
Bernhard Haisch, contemporary German-born U.S. astrophysicist

Pick your best inspirational life quote on optimism

When one door shuts, another opens.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) English landscape painter

- Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell (born 1937) first African-American U. S. Secretary of State

Pick your best inspirational life quote on perfectionism

- Stop improving yourself and start living.
Roberta Jean Bryant, contemporary U.S. author

- Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen (born 1934) Canadian poet, singer/songwriter

- Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough.
Julia Cameron (born 1948) U.S. poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher, author, artist

Pick your best inspirational life quote on truth

- Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher

- Dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly—right now.
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) U.S. architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, visionary

Pick your best inspirational life quote on unity

- All our burdens are lighter when we carry them together.
Jon Voight (born 1938) U.S. film/TV actor

- There is no force, however formidable, that a united people cannot overcome.
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) Ghanaian leader; liberated his country from Britain

- Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) U.S. cultural anthropologist

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