Inspirational Quotes

Life regularly throws at us instances where we find ourselves at bewildering crossroads - dilemmas that seem to cause a bedlam of thoughts and emotions. Such situations result in us becoming disconsolate and occasionally we end up so shattered that no amount of cajoling can repair our spirits. Emerging victorious through such pandemonium becomes an exigent task, and we end up falling back on the experiences of others. How exactly do we learn about such turmoil and turbulence, thus surviving in the midst of the most tragic of situations? Through words that certain famous people uttered at some point in life. What better way to lift our spirits, motivate ourselves and stand back on our feet, than a few quotes that are always galvanizing? Each stirring aphorism has one main aim - to echo what writer Ann Landers so strongly advises - “ Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” If you're feeling low, and you need your daily dose of motivation, explore our compendium of inspirational quotes that will entirely alter the way you think.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Life Rain
Rabindranath Tagore

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Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Soul Truth
Ellen DeGeneres

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
Future Dreams
Malala Yousafzai

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Confidence Health Excitement
Lao Tzu

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Good Value
Hermann Hesse

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Life Love Work
Steve Jobs

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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Change Words World
Robin Williams

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Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.
Meaningful Motivation Advice Opinion
Osama bin Laden

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Life Happiness
Gautama Buddha

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts

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The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Life Love Dreams
Anais Nin

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Light tomorrow with today!
Light
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Humor Reading
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

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Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
Positivity
Donnie Yen

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Focus Light
Aristotle

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Perfection Excellence
Vince Lombardi

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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Motivation Advice Optimism Positivity
Eudora Welty

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Action
Jules Renard

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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong

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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!
Good Love
Anne Frank

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Life
Joseph Campbell

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Appreciation Indebtedness
John F. Kennedy

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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Life Work
Bruce Lee

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

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I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Best
Audrey Hepburn

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Life Learning
Morgan Freeman

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Tree World
Martin Luther

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Motivation Optimism Positivity Confidence
Dalai Lama

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Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
Moon Stars
Les Brown

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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Death Family Advice Fear
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Help
Ronald Reagan

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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Life Training Rest
Muhammad Ali

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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
Motivation People
Herman Cain

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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
Time Cool
Stephen Colbert

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Good World
Desmond Tutu

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Meaningful Advice People Reality
Soren Kierkegaard

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Living Life
Arthur Ashe

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi

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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Good Change
Brittany Murphy

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Time Life
Rabindranath Tagore

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Best Health
Gautama Buddha

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Sunlight Fall
Walt Whitman

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Universe
Joseph Campbell

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Change World
Norman Vincent Peale

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Heaven
Robert Browning

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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Knowledge Smile
Leo Buscaglia

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Nothing
Audrey Hepburn

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Life
John Wayne

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Talking Thinking Soul
Plato

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Music
Henry David Thoreau

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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Life
William Morris

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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Love Truth Heart
Michael Jackson

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I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Power Truth
Sylvester Stallone

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Nothing
Alexander the Great

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
World
Anne Frank

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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Change World Teachers
Malala Yousafzai

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Birds Practice Commitment Comparisons
Salvador Dali

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

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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Life
Joseph Campbell

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Reality Change
Plutarch

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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens

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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward

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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Change
Michael Jordan

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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Motivation Assassination Attitude Corruption
Adolf Hitler

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Time
Warren Buffett

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Zeal Humor Life
Maya Angelou

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I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson

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Ideas shape the course of history.
History Ideas
John Maynard Keynes

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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Advice Greed
Sir Thomas Browne

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Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Meaningful Motivation Advice Struggles
Adolf Hitler

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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
R. Kelly

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
World
Bertrand Russell

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Ideas People
Anatole France

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Greatness
Benjamin Disraeli

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True change takes place in the imagination.
Motivation Advice Change Creativity
Thomas Moore

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Funny Books Purpose Defeat
George Carlin

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To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
Good Love
Snoop Dogg

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life Meaningful Motivation Advice
Soren Kierkegaard

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Men Motivation Accomplishment Achievement
Malcolm X

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Christopher Morley

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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Right Future
Steve Jobs

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What we think, we become.
Gautama Buddha

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We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman

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