Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. Inspiration often comes from being motivated, by someone’s actions or achievements. Inspirational quotes are meant to offer a feeling of enthusiasm derived from someone or something, so as to give someone new and creative ideas.
Some of the best inspirational quotes are listed below.
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
- “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucious
- “Climb ev’ry mountain, Ford ev’ry stream, Follow ev’ry rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream.” – Sound of Music
- “Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.” – Art Linkletter
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hearts.” – Charles Dickens
- “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
- “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” – E.B. White
- “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” – Bill Gates
- “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty–six 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
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
- “It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.”
– Louis Pasteur - “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Life is a gift.” – Unknown
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christen Andersen
- “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
- “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
- “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
- “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The years teach much the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
- “Time’s fun when you’re eating flies.” – Kermit the Frog
- “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot
- “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickensen
- “To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” – Walt Whitman
- “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “We grow great by dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson
- “We know what we are but know not what we may be.” – Shakespeare
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “What one can be one must be.” – Unknown
- “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” – Tom Preston-Werner
- “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucious
- “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss
- “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager
- “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
- “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
- “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Irish Proverb
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