A Collection of 200 Inspirational Quotes

A Collection of 200 Inspirational Quotes

Last updated on September 19th, 2022 at 01:50 pm

Ever feel down and out, like the whole world is out to get you? Well, our carefully selected collection of inspirational quotes is a sure fire way to spark your motivation and give you a well needed boost of energy ! Be sure to let us know your favorites in the comments below !

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โ€œItโ€™s never crowded along the extra mile.โ€

Wayne W. Dyer (2009). โ€œA Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Motherโ€™s Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us: Easyread Large Editionโ€, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

โ€œKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.โ€

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). โ€œMark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotationsโ€, p.354, Courier Corporation

โ€œDonโ€™t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.โ€

MARK TWAIN, โ€œMark Twain, selected writings of an American skepticโ€. Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
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โ€œHave the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.โ€

Inspirational Quotes โ€“ STEVE JOBS, Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

โ€œA man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.โ€

John C. Maxwell (2001). โ€œThe Power of Leadershipโ€, p.18, David C Cook

โ€œThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.โ€

WILLIAM JAMES, Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33
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โ€œWhen inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let goโ€ฆ The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!โ€

Inspirational Quotes โ€“ JUDY COLLINS, โ€œWise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugsโ€ by Alex J. Packer, (p. 213), 2006.

โ€œYou cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.โ€

Swami Vivekananda (2015). โ€œThe Complete Works of Swami Vivekanandaโ€, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

โ€œI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.โ€

Stephen W. Hawking (1993). โ€œBlack Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essaysโ€, Bantam
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โ€œYour time is limited, so donโ€™t waste it living someone elseโ€™s life.โ€

Inspirational Quotes โ€“ STEVE JOBS, Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

โ€œWe never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.โ€

Francis Chan (2013). โ€œCrazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless Godโ€, p.170, David C Cook

โ€œA sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.โ€

C. S. Lewis (1984). โ€œThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewisโ€, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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โ€œThere are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.โ€

ORISON SWETT MARDEN(2015). โ€œORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection โ€“ Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity โ€“ How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortuneโ€ฆโ€, p.3113, e-artnow

โ€œA person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.โ€

MARK TWAIN, 1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

โ€œWe shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.โ€

Winston Churchill (2012). โ€œChurchill: The Power of Wordsโ€, p.356, Da Capo Press
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โ€œI say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.โ€

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., โ€œI Have a Dreamโ€. Martin Luther King, Jr.โ€™s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.

โ€œTo love God is something greater than to know Him.โ€

St Thomas Aquinas (2013). โ€œSumma Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)โ€, p.1302, Cosimo, Inc.

โ€œLook into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.โ€

KAREN ARMSTRONG, โ€œHow Can We Make The World More Compassionate?โ€. Interview with Guy Raz, December 19, 2014.ย 
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โ€œYouโ€™ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.โ€

Dr. Seuss (1978). โ€œI can read with my eyes shut!โ€ โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œSolitude is the place of purification.โ€

Martin Buber (2012). โ€œI and Thouโ€, p.109, eBookIt.com

โ€œOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.โ€

Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). โ€œLetters of Sigmund Freudโ€, p.258, Courier Corporation
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โ€œWhat other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just Godโ€™s way of pointing you in a new directionโ€

โ€œJob Market Strong as Graduates Enter Real Worldโ€ by Lindsay Hamilton, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2007.

โ€œWe may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.โ€

Max Lucado (1999). โ€œWhen God Whispers Your Nameโ€, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

โ€œCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.โ€

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). โ€œLife Thoughtsโ€, p.158
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โ€œNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.โ€

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). โ€œBlake: The Complete Poemsโ€, p.114, Pearson Education โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œPlanning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what youโ€™re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.โ€

E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). โ€œConversations with E.L. Doctorowโ€, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

โ€œHitch your wagon to a star.โ€

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)
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โ€œAccordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.โ€

Lafcadio Hearn (2012). โ€œBooks and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearnโ€, p.107, tredition โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œWhere much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.โ€

Elbert Hubbard (1922). โ€œSelected Writings of Elbert Hubbard โ€ฆโ€

โ€œThere is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.โ€

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). โ€œOrdination addresses and counsels to clergyโ€
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โ€œA good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.โ€

WILSON MIZNER, Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

โ€œEach generation has to stand up for democracy. It canโ€™t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.โ€

MARGARET THATCHER, โ€œWhy democracy will lastโ€. Margaret Thatcherโ€™s second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, November 26, 1984.

โ€œItโ€™s not the size of the dog in the fight, itโ€™s the size of the fight in the dog.โ€

Mark Twain (2014). โ€œMark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from Americaโ€™s Most-Revered Humoristโ€, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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โ€œBooks are for nothing but to inspireโ€

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, โ€œThe Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emersonโ€. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œGive me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). โ€œDelphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)โ€, p.1070, Delphi Classics

โ€œI felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.โ€

DON DELILLO, โ€œQ&A: Don DeLillo / Itโ€™s not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and deathโ€. Interview with John Freeman, March 5, 2006.
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โ€œThe many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.โ€

โ€œFor the record: quick news on distributed, o-tow, Guns Nโ€™Roses, Madonna, Simple Plan, Jack Johnson & moreโ€, http://www.mtv.com. November 07, 2003. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œThough I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortuneโ€™s darlings.โ€

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (2015). โ€œPoems New and Collectedโ€, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

โ€œIโ€™ll get an inspiration and start painting; then Iโ€™ll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.โ€

โ€œGrandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist โ€˜Just Wore Out'โ€. The New York Times Obituary, December 14, 1961.
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โ€œLove is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.โ€

Mother Teresa (1997). โ€œNo Greater Loveโ€ โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œNo man is rich enough to buy back his past.โ€

OSCAR WILDE (1959). โ€œThe Wit and Humor of Oscar Wildeโ€, p.32, Courier Corporation

โ€œOnce she knows how to read thereโ€™s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.โ€

Virginia Woolf (2001). โ€œThe Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fictionโ€, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA
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โ€œIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.โ€

RENE DESCARTES, โ€œPrinciples of Philosophyโ€. Book by Rene Descartes, 1644. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œUnconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.โ€

A.J. JACOBS (2008). โ€œThe Year of Living Biblically: One Manโ€™s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possibleโ€, p.275, Simon and Schuster

โ€œFriendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: โ€œWhat! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .โ€

C. S. Lewis (1971). โ€œThe Four Lovesโ€, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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โ€œWhat we say does not matter โ€“ only what God says to souls through us.โ€

Mother Teresa (1996). โ€œIn My Own Wordsโ€

โ€œJust as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.โ€

Igor Stravinsky โ€œAn Autobiographyโ€, Library of Alexandria

โ€œHigh expectations are the key to everything.โ€

SAM WALTON, โ€œSam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Storesโ€ by Thomas C. Hayes, http://www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1992.
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โ€œDream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.โ€

JOHN RUSKIN, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curranโ€™s speech at The Chancellorโ€™s Dinner, Mansion House, April 23, 2014.

โ€œCome to the edge. We might fall.
Come to the edge. Itโ€™s too high!
Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.โ€

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE, โ€œCome to the Edgeโ€ l. 1 (1969) โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œYour reputation is in the hands of others. Thatโ€™s what the reputation is. You canโ€™t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.โ€

Wayne W. Dyer (2009). โ€œStaying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Editionโ€, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
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โ€œMany a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.โ€

KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL, โ€œAthenaeumโ€ magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

โ€œA manโ€™s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.โ€

Mark Twain (2014). โ€œMark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from Americaโ€™s Most-Revered Humoristโ€, p.50, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

โ€œIntense love does not measure, it just gives.โ€

Mother Teresa (2016). โ€œNo Greater Love, Commemorative Editionโ€, p.31, New World Library
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โ€œIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.โ€

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden ch. 18 (1854) โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œMen are born to succeed, not to fail.โ€

Henry David Thoreau (2013). โ€œQuotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreauโ€, p.93, BookBaby

โ€œGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.โ€

Mark Twain (2015). โ€œBite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legendโ€, p.28, St. Martinโ€™s Press
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โ€œBehold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.โ€

WALT WHITMAN, โ€œSong of Myself โ€ l. 994 (written 1855)

โ€œYouโ€™re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, Soโ€ฆ get on your way!โ€

Theodor Seuss Geisel, โ€œOh, The Places Youโ€™ll Goโ€

โ€œWe ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?โ€

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, โ€œA Return to Loveโ€ by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.
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โ€œVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.โ€

BRENE BROWN, โ€œCan We Gain Strength From Shame?โ€. โ€œTED Radio Hourโ€ with Guy Raz, March 11, 2013. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œLove and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.โ€

DALAI LAMA, His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). โ€œKindness, Clarity, and Insightโ€, p.51, Shambhala Publications
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โ€œGet into the habit of saying, โ€Speak, Lord,โ€ and life will become a romance.โ€

Oswald Chambers (2011). โ€œThe Quotable Oswald Chambersโ€, p.229, Discovery House

โ€œAll my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.โ€

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, โ€œThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkienโ€.
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โ€œYou and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.โ€

C. S. Lewis (2009). โ€œWeight of Gloryโ€, p.31, Harper Collins

โ€œOur deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.โ€

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
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โ€œAnimation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.โ€

WALT DISNEY, โ€œOpenGL Shading Languageโ€. Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

โ€œUnconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.โ€

A. J. Jacobs (2008). โ€œThe Year of Living Biblically: One Manโ€™s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possibleโ€, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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โ€œHave the courage to follow your heart and intuition.โ€

STEVE JOBS, Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

โ€œTrue faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in Godโ€™s fidelity to His Promises.โ€

Francis Chan (2014). โ€œThe Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiplyโ€, p.120, David C Cook
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โ€œThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.โ€

William Arthur Ward (1968). โ€œThoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Wardโ€

โ€œRisks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.โ€

LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). โ€œLIVING, LOVING & LEARNINGโ€
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โ€œNo one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.โ€

NELSON MANDELA, โ€œLong Walk to Freedomโ€. Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

โ€œIt is so hard to leaveโ€”until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.โ€

John Green (2013). โ€œPaper Townsโ€, p.229, A&C Black
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โ€œWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.โ€

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). โ€œLife Togetherโ€, p.76, SCM Press

โ€œOn the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.โ€

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)
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โ€œThe journey is the rewardโ€

Steve Jobs (0101). โ€œMotivating Thoughts of Steve Jobsโ€, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

โ€œMan needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.โ€

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). โ€œThe Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psycheโ€
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โ€œDonโ€™t be trapped by dogma โ€” which is living with the results of other peopleโ€™s thinking.โ€

STEVE JOBS, Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

โ€œNo half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.โ€

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, Letter to Edith. โ€œJ. R. R. Tolkien: A Biographyโ€. Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.
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โ€œDonโ€™t tell me the skyโ€™s the limit.โ€

PAUL BRANDT, Song: Thereโ€™s A World Out There, Album: Thatโ€™s the Truth, 1999

โ€œCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.โ€

JOSEPH ADDISON, โ€œPray It Forward:daily Meditationsโ€. Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.
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โ€œHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.โ€

GAUTAMA BUDDHA, โ€œJoyโ€

โ€œWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.โ€

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). โ€œLettersโ€
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โ€œFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.โ€

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, โ€œA Square Dealโ€. Theodore Rooseveltโ€™s speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

โ€œOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.โ€

T.S. Eliot (2015). โ€œThe Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poemsโ€, p.1250, Faber & Faber
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โ€œIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.โ€

RONALD REAGAN, Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

โ€œI am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.โ€

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1833). โ€œThe Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskanderโ€, p.61
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โ€œThis above all; to thine own self be true.โ€

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, โ€˜Hamletโ€™ (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

โ€œLive in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesnโ€™t exist and never shall. There is only now.โ€

Christopher Paolini (2014). โ€œThe Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritanceโ€, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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โ€œThe years teach much which the days never know.โ€

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, โ€˜Essays. Second Seriesโ€™ (1844) โ€˜Experienceโ€™

โ€œYou change your life by changing your heart.โ€

Max Lucado (2008). โ€œLucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)โ€, p.181, Thomas Nelson Inc
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โ€œWhen I dare to be powerful โ€“ to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.โ€

AUDRE LORDE, โ€œThe Cancer Journalsโ€. Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

โ€œThe time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.โ€

Kennedy, John F. (1963). โ€œPublic Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962โ€, p.144
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โ€œExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.โ€

Oscar Wilde (2014). โ€œEpigrams and Aphorismsโ€, p.14, BoD โ€“ Books on Demand

โ€œThe starting point of all achievement is desire.โ€

Napoleon Hill (2007). โ€œThe Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperityโ€, p.142, Penguin
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โ€œNever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.โ€

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). โ€œOldtown folks. Sam Lawsonโ€™s Oldtown fireside storiesโ€

โ€œLet me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.โ€

LOUIS PASTEUR, โ€œThereโ€™s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problemโ€. Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.
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โ€œEvery right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.โ€

John D. Rockefeller (2015). โ€œJohn D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealthโ€, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

โ€œThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.โ€

Vince Lombardi (2012). โ€œWhat it Takes to be Number Oneโ€, p.71, Thomas Nelson
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โ€œIf you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?โ€

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). โ€œThe Pocket Rumiโ€, p.127, Shambhala Publications

โ€œService is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.โ€

Marian Wright Edelman (2013). โ€œThe Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yoursโ€, p.15, Beacon Press
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โ€œAct the way youโ€™d like to be and soon youโ€™ll be the way you act.โ€

LEONARD COHEN, โ€œLeonard Cohen: Most Iconic Quotesโ€ by Katie Oโ€™malley, November 11, 2016.

โ€œCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.โ€

MARK TWAIN, Puddโ€™nhead Wilson ch. 12, โ€œPuddโ€™nhead Wilsonโ€™s Calendarโ€ (1894)
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โ€œThe best way out is always through.โ€

ROBERT FROST, North of Boston (1914) โ€œServant to Servantsโ€

โ€œOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.โ€

Albert Einstein (2015). โ€œBite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Centuryโ€, p.15, St. Martinโ€™s Press
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โ€œThere are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.โ€

James Truslow Adams (1930). โ€œA Searchlight on Americaโ€, London : Routledge

โ€œDo it from the heart or not at all.โ€

JEANETTE WINTERSON, โ€œReal shoppingโ€ by Jeanette Winterson, December 8, 2007.
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โ€œThe longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.โ€

CHARLES SWINDOLL (2000). โ€œThe Life@work Bookโ€, W Publishing Group

โ€œA momentโ€™s insight is sometimes worth a lifeโ€™s experience.โ€

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR., 1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.
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โ€œDoubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.โ€

JENNIFER LOPEZ, โ€œJennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heartโ€. Interview with Veronica Chambers, August 2, 2010. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œThe world can be better if thereโ€™s love, tolerance and humility.โ€

IRENA SENDLER, โ€œHolocaust Hero Turns 97โ€ by Jim Sciutto, February 15, 2007.
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โ€œA hard beginning make a good ending.โ€

John Heywood (1562). โ€œThe Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood โ€ฆโ€, p.328

โ€œAny fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.โ€

Jay Fields (2009). โ€œRefactoring: Ruby Editionโ€, p.36, Pearson Education โ€“ Inspiring Quotes
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โ€œDo not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.โ€

JOHN F. KENNEDY, โ€œTwenty Sermonsโ€. Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886. โ€“ Motivational Quotes

โ€œMy life is my message.โ€

Mahatma Gandhi (2008). โ€œThe Essential Writingsโ€, p.8, Oxford University Press
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โ€œLive your beliefs and you can turn the world around.โ€

Henry David Thoreau (2015). โ€œThoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural Worldโ€, p.16, kyhorse Publishing, Inc.

โ€œThe more you dream the more you achieve.โ€

MICHAEL PHELPS, โ€œInterview Michael Phelpsโ€ by Donald McRae, August 1, 2004.ย โ€“ Inspiring Quotes
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โ€œIf youโ€™ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.โ€

Vince Lombardi (1998). โ€œSeeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Centuryโ€

โ€œA good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.โ€

Nelson Mandela (2011). โ€œNelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotationsโ€, p.73, Pan Macmillan โ€“ Inspiring Quotes
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โ€œThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.โ€

GEORGE ELIOT, โ€œJanetโ€™s Repentanceโ€. Story by George Eliot, Chapter 25. โ€œScenes of Clerical Lifeโ€. Book by George Eliot, 1857.

โ€œLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.โ€

MARK TWAIN, Puddโ€™nhead Wilson ch. 6, โ€œPuddโ€™nhead Wilsonโ€™s Calendarโ€ (1894) โ€“ Motivational Quotes
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โ€œCreativity is just connecting things.โ€

STEVE JOBS, โ€œSteve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thingโ€. Interview with Gary Wolf, February 1, 1996.

โ€œOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.โ€

THOMAS EDISON, โ€œAn Enemy Called Averageโ€. Book by John L. Mason, 1990. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes
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โ€œIt is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.โ€

Nelson Mandela (2012). โ€œNotes to the Future: Words of Wisdomโ€, p.81, Simon and Schuster โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œRowing harder doesnโ€™t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.โ€

KENICHI OHMAE, โ€œAntiPatterns in Project Managementโ€. Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.
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โ€œOnce we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.โ€

MARION WOODMAN, โ€œJungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the โ€˜Great Workโ€™โ€. Interview with Pythia Peay, May 21, 2010.ย 

โ€œMan can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.โ€

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (2015). โ€œThe Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warrenโ€™s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lionโ€, p.522, e-artnow
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โ€œWithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds.โ€

GORDON HINCKLEY, โ€œFarewell to a Prophetโ€. Ensign magazine, July 1994. โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œImagination is more important than knowledge.โ€

ALBERT EINSTEIN (2015). โ€œBite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Centuryโ€, p.32, St. Martinโ€™s Press
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โ€œAs long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.โ€

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1926). โ€œThe Heart of Emersonโ€™s Journalsโ€, p.189, Courier Corporation

โ€œHe who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1977). โ€œThe Portable Nietzscheโ€, p.188, Penguin
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โ€œIf the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.โ€

LUCY LARCOM (1869). โ€œPOEMSโ€, p.186

โ€œReflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many โ€“ not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.โ€

CHARLES DICKENS (1839). โ€œSketches by Bozโ€, p.172 โ€“ Inspirational Quotes
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โ€œOpen your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.โ€

ANTHONY DOERR (2014). โ€œAll the Light We Cannot See: A Novelโ€, p.86, Simon and Schuster

โ€œIt isnโ€™t the big pleasures that count the most; itโ€™s making a great deal out of the little ones.โ€

JEAN WEBSTER (2004). โ€œDaddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemyโ€, p.105, Penguin

โ€œI say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.โ€

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., โ€œI Have a Dreamโ€. Martin Luther King, Jr.โ€™s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.
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โ€œHope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.โ€

SAMUEL SMILES (1861). โ€œSelf-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conductโ€, p.67 โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.โ€

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, โ€œSir Galahadโ€ l. 3 (1842)
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โ€œBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.โ€

KHALIL GIBRAN, โ€œSelected Short Works of Khalil Gibranโ€, Library of Alexandria โ€“ Inspirational Quotes

โ€œYouโ€™re only given a little spark of madness. You mustnโ€™t lose it.โ€

ROBIN WILLIAMS, โ€œWisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healingโ€. Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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