Great Inspirational Quotes:

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Art, Great Inspirational, Virtue

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

- Graham Greene

topic: Sweet, Great Inspirational, Mind

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Great Inspirational, Emotion, Poetry Is

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life Is Complicated, Making A Living

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Greatness, Born, Great Inspirational

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Clever, Inspirational Goal Setting, Adjustment

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful.

- Louise Hay

topic: Grateful, I Am Grateful, Universe, Great Inspirational

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

- Howard Zinn

topic: Kindness, Sacrifice, Thinking, Great Inspirational, Human History

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Fulfilling Life, Fulfillment In Life

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Pads, Launching, Great Inspirational, Humble Beginnings, Small Beginnings

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Greatness, Steps, World, Great Inspirational

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Running, Masters, Either Or, Don't Ever Give Up

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Inspirational, Loneliness, Character, Great Inspirational

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Going On, Inspirational Motivational Images

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

- George Adair

topic: Inspirational, Sides, Wanted, Fear None, Inspirational Career

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Volleyball, Peace, Motivational Action, Great Inspirational

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

topic: Procrastination, Firsts, Steps, New Projects, Pushing On

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Start where you are, use what you have.

- Arthur Ashe

source: "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

topic: Use, Where You Are, Pushing On, Inspirational Motivational Images, Live Your Dreams

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Men, Compassion, Generosity, Prussia, Great Inspirational

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

- Howard Thurman

source: "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

topic: Alive, Soul Life, Seeing Yourself, Inspirational Passion, Time And Change

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Struggle, Journey, Soul, Great Inspirational

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Business Life, Good Success, Inspirational Track, Monday Morning Motivational, Morning Motivation

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

- John D. Rockefeller

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Business Life, Good Success

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Best Success, My Own Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Live Life To Its Fullest

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

source: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life Is Simple, Live Life To Its Fullest

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Nothing Is Impossible, Massive Change

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Time To Move On

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

topic: Life, Success, Music, Music Life, Music Is Life

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Positive, Attitude, Men, Great Inspirational, Vanity Fair