Powerful Inspirational Quotes:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Spiritual Advice

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

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

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Long Ago, Years, Knowing, Empowering Women, I Am Strong

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Career, Career Women

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

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

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

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Failure In Life, Inspirational Harry Potter

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

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 think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

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

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

Keep 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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

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

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

The best revenge is massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, About Success, Massive Change

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Love And Hate, Darfur

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Max Eastman

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Doors, Live For Yourself, Marketing And Sales

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Self Determination, Live For Yourself

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

source: "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Entrepreneur, Different, Standing Out, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspiring, Goal, Answers, Soul Searching, Powerful Inspirational

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

- Eric Butterworth

topic: Power, Achieve, Release, Inner Power, Predestination

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Cancer, Divine Destiny, Power Of Intention

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin

topic: Christian, Prayer, Powerful, Draining, Powerful Inspirational

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Jobs, Fall, Order, Togetherness, Things Will Work Out