Inspiration Quotes

Collection of famous inspiration quotes.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. - Helen Keller

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

It is difficulties that show what men are. - Epictetus

Life misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo

Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage. - John F. Kennedy

That which does not kill me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa

There are no hopeless situations in life; there are only (women and) men who have grown hopeless about them. - Clare Booth Luce

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. - French Proverb

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present. - Grenville Kleiser

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing" - Jim Rohn

Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your journey. - Sarah Meredith

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. - Richard M. DeVos

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. - J. B. Priestley

If you are successful remember that somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a lift or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember, also, that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. - Napoleon Hill

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. - H. Jackson Brown

Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom. - Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. - Balzac

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - G.K. Chesterton

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. - Raymond Holliwell

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it. - Nido Qubein

We are all pencils in the hand of writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. - Mother Teresa

The good we do is never lost. Some of it remains, if not in material goods, then in deeper experience, a more practiced hand, and in spirit made stronger to meet greater challenges ahead. - Corazon Acquino

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. - Orison Swett Marden

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. - Alan Watts

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Beecher

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

Every great leap forward in human life begins with a giant step of faith into the unknown. - Brian Tracy

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. - Oprah Winfrey

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. - Joseph Addison

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself. - Sara Henderson

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. - Meister Eckhart

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now. - Denis Waitley

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

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain, and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. - Joseph Joubert

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. - Sandra Bullock

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't see the future, yet you know it will come; you can't see the air, yet you continue to breathe. - Claire London

We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. - Dana Gould

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. - Ned Rorem

Whatever you find hardest to do, do with all your heart. - Dalai Lama

The door to your cage is open. All you have to do is walk out, if you dare. - George Lucas

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation. - Denis Waitley

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