Crazy Inspirational Quotes:

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Sometimes In Life, Stanford University

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Crazy, Inspirational Change, Beauty Of Life

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life Lesson, Moving, Simple, Complex Systems, Success Mantra

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Death, Sorry, Old Job, Stanford University

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Motivational, Karma, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

- Walter Isaacson

source: Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

topic: Change, Success, Meaningful, Beauty Of Life, Life Changing Inspirational

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

- Lois Lowry

topic: Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words, Different Jobs, Peg

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Waiting, Matter, Worth Waiting For, Different Jobs

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Positive, Happiness, Times Have Changed, Ready For Change

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Long, Dwell On The Past, Good Success

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, People, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Inspiring Change, Different Jobs

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Successful, Young Entrepreneurs, Perserverance

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Life, Crazy, People, Horrible Life, Crazy People