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Quotes to Inspire

Let me show you a huge collection of Quotes to Inspire. Please take time and read all of them, select your favorite, and share with all your friends. Be happy! :)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.” – Nelson Mandela

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” – Erving Goffman

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel De Cervantes

“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

”Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” –
Carl Bard

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Quotes to Inspire”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

”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.

”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

”The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” – Sir James M. Barrie

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.” – Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

“Tell me I’ll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Kierkegaard

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “ – Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

”Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Funny Love Quotes

Let’s make our day better with some wonderful funny love quotes.

“A light heart lives long.” – William Shakespeare

“Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller

“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.” – H.L. Mencken

“Once you have loved someone, you’d do anything in the world for them… except love them again.” – Anonymous

“Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end.” – Anonymous

“Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.” – Mirabeau

“Three things can’t be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love.” – Yiddish proverb

“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.” – Chamfort

“I detest ‘love lyrics.’ I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on ‘love lyrics.” – Frank Zappa

“You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.” – Dolly Parton

“I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.” – Edgar Watson Howe

“I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I’m supposed to do…I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting.” – many attributions

“No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – unknown

“An old man who marries a young wife grows younger – but she grows older.” – folk saying

“It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced.” – Anonymous

“What female heart can despise gold?” – Thomas Gray

“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.'” – James Thurber

“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

“We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh.” – Alice Reppler

Belive in Yourself Quotes

There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself. – Sam Kao

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. – William Shakespeare

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. – Jennifer Capriati

Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself. – Lady Gaga

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. – Sugar Ray Robinson

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do. – Martina Navratilova

If you don’t ask because you might be refused, you’ve already refused yourself. – Nisandeh Neta

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching. and live like it’s heaven on earth. – Mark Twain

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. – Adele Brookman

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination. – Cornelia Funke

You’re only a victim when you allow yourself to be one. – Primadonna Angela

The mind should dance with the body, and the whole universe is your stage. Try to feel that whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing, the prettiest dance, because you are dancing with the whole Universe. – Yogi Bhajan

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.  – Irisa Hail

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. – Allen H. Neuharth

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” – George Reeves

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. – Dan Zadra

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. – Truman Capote

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be. – Karen Ravn

Never dull your shine for somebody else. – Tyra Banks

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.” – Author Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. – Paula Cole

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. – Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. – Buckminster Fuller

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown

Change Quotes

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages. – Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. – Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. – Robert C. Gallagher

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. – Francis Bacon

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. – Carl Jung

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. – John A. Simone, Sr.

Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing. – Irene Peter

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. – Benjamin Disraeli

Coffee Quotes

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. – Drew Sirtors

Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong. – Dutch Proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. – Turkish Proverb

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. – Turkish Proverb

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. – Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. – Dutch Proverb

A morning without coffee is like sleep. – Anonymous

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. – Voyager

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. – Flash Rosenberg

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee – Anonymous

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. – Anonymous

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. – Alexander Pope

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. – Anonymous

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. – Jessi Lane Adams

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. – Eddie Izzard

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend. – Anonymous

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. – Anonymous

I like my coffee strong and my women weak. – Alexander Pappas

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. – Alphonse Allais

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. – Bob Irwin

Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack. – Herman Friele

Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. – David Letterman

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. – Carly Simon

Coffee: Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. – Anonymous

Coffee and love are best when they are hot. – German Proverb

26 Moving Travel Quotes

1. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

2.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Barr

3. “Only he that travels the road knows where the holes are deep” 
- Chinese Proverb

4. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” 
- John Hope Franklin

5. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
 – Robert Frost

6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 
- Maya Angelou

7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” 
- Martin Burbur

8. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” 
- Daranna GIidel

9. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensation to read on the train.” 
- Oscar Wilde


10.”We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” 
- Unknown

11. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 
- St. Augustine

12. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns to find it.” 
- George Moore

13.”I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”
 – William Hazlitt

14. “The Traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he as come to see.” 
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
 – Nikos Kazantzakis

16. “The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

18.”My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
 – Diane Arbus

19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” 
- Benjamin Disraeli

20.”A true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.” 
- Colette

21. “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

22. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends”
 – Shirley Maclaine

23.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Beard

24. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.”Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” 
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

26.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
 – G.K. Chesterton