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Category: Inspirational Quotes
25 Inspiring Quotes
1. If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
2. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
3. Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg
4. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. – Margaret Young
6. This is my “depressed stance”. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve go to stand like this. – Charlie Brown
7. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt
8. Jumping for joy is good exercise. – Unknown
9. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese proverb
10. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. – Thornton Wilder
11. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
12. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
13. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
14. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. – Leonardo DaVinci
16. The path involves respect for all small and subtle things. Learn to recognize the right moment to strike the necessary attitudes. – Manual of the Warrior of Light
17. I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it. – Louise Hay
18. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen
19. I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! – Unknown
20. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
21. Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness. – Ram Dass
22. Trust your gut. – Barbara Walters
23. Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez
24. She took the leap and built her wings on the way down. – Unknown
25. You have brains in your head and 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
20 Great Inspirational Quotes
1. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
2. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot
5. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
7. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
8. “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
9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
10. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot
11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown
14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
15. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown
27. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, 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
18. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch
19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White
20. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Fantasy Quotes
– “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik
– “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones
– “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney
– “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm
– “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell
– “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung
– “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom
– “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill
– “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler
– “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer
– “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels
– “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge
– “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens
– “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch
– “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall
– “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon
– “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler
– “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke
– “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera
– “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak
Inspirational Funny Quotes
– “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain
– “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
– “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby
– “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb
– “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis
– “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will
– “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
– “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown
– “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft
Inspirational Quotes About Faith
“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“Faith is reason grown courageous.” – Sherwood Eddy
“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.” – Albert Einstein
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Strength to carry on despite the odds means you have faith in your own abilities and know how.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.” – Blaise Pascal
“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.” – Dorothy Thompson
“Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.” – E.B. White
“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety.” – Josh Billings
“Faith is a passionate intuition.” – William Wordsworth
Buddha Quote of the Day
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha
Inspirational Quotes
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller
“Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” – Abraham Lincoln
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” –Ezra Taft Benson
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Start where you are with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied. – George Washington Carver
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” – Michael Jordan
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
–Ernest Hemingway
“Never, never, never, never ever give up!” – Winston Churchill
Doing Your Best Quotes
# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James
# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner
# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin
# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)
# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks
# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden
# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas
# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands
# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner
# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt
# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser
# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey
# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)
# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden
# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)
# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie
# 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
# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl
Famous Inspirational Quotes
“I had a hole in my heart, so I threw away my plate, because nothing filled me up, no matter what I ate.” – Unknown
“Fasting is a medicine” – St. John
“Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive” – George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing tastes as good as thin feels” – Unknown
“In eating a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty” – Talmud
“I saw few die of hunger, of eating 100,000” – Benjamin Franklin
“In the body, as in sculpture, perfection is not attained when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Author Unknown
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat twice as much as nature requires” – Benjamin Franklin
“Most people eat as though they were fattening themselves for the market” – Author Unknown
“Three good meals a day is bad living” – Benjamin Franklin
“How many pounds till I am happy?
How many pounds till I get thin?
Three more pounds till I am skinny
Three more pounds and I win!” – Unknown
“I do eat normally – only what is needed for survival. I can’t help that we live in a piggish society where gluttony is the norm and everyone else is constantly stuffing themselves. ” – Unknown