Inspiration Quotes

130 Inspiration Quotes

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If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J M Power

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.
Frank Zappa

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

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Joe Clark

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Will Rogers

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.
Ray Norda

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

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky



Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F Kettering

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

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Anonymous

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Ross Wallace

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

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

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard



Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE’!
Anonymous

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire

There are 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

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

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

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster’s Law

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos

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



You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson

You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.
F Perl

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B Singer

How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware.
Anonymous

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau



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