Inspiration is a motivational state and the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something. Inspired people also are more open to new experiences, and have better well-being. Famous inspirational quotes will help you to see life differently, make you mentally stronger and brighten up your day.
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Famous Inspirational Quotes
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. Carol Burnett
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible! Audrey Hepburn
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. William W. Purkey
There is nothing impossible to they who will try. Alexander the Great
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.
Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell. Amal Clooney
We accept the love we think we deserve. Stephen Chbosky
You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box. Duchess Meghan
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Malala Yousafzai
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it. Dr. Phil
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie Ann Moss
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
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. Michelle Obama
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. Bill Keane
Spread love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on. Lady Gaga
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is. Gabrielle Bernstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job? Hayley Williams
This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. Marilyn Monroe
I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this. Alexandria Ocasio
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
Belief creates the actual fact. William James
Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis
I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that. Ava DuVernay
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle
To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J.K. Rowling
Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness. Marie Forleo
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment. Marianne Cantwell
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
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
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. Marlee Matlin
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. Shel Silverstein
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be. Stephen Chbosky
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen that stillness becomes a radiance. Morgan Freeman
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. John Lennon
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale
We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. Albert Einstein
I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion. Pink
Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl
Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. Mark Twain
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out. Eleanor Roosevelt
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come. Ellen DeGeneres
It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. Walter Anderson
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together. Diane McLaren
Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied. Dwayne Johnson
Success is not final; failure is not fatal It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
Nobody built like you, you design yourself. Jay Z
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis
I tell myself, You’ve been through so much, you’ve endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today. Serena Williams
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie
Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures. Joelle Speranza
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan Press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge
