Motivational and Inspirational Quotes


If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
– St. Clement of Alexandra

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
– Arthur C. Clarke

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
– Albert Einstein

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
– Author Unknown

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
– Henry David Thoreau

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
– Mohandas Gandhi

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.”
– Tom Peters

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
– Thornton Wilder

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Plato

The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
– Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
– William B. Sprague

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
– Jonathan Swift

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
– Voltaire

“The best way to teach people is by telling a story.”
– Kenneth Blanchard

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
– Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe, Latin Proverb

“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
– Vince Lombardi

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
– Henry Ward Beecher

“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
– Sam Walton

“In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
– Samuel Johnson

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
– Unknown Author

“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
– Sydney J. Harris


Fortune favors the brave.
– Publius Terence

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
– Tom Brokaw

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.
– Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
– Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
– Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
– Matthew Prior

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
– Mary Shelley

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
– George S. Patton

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
– Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:
“Leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,
you must be something.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
– Horace Bushnell

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
– W. C. Doane

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
– Benjamin Disraeli

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
– George Eliot

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
– Thomas Carlyle

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
– Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
– John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
– Epictetus

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