Inspirational quotes: if the following quotes don’t get you up and moving I don’t know what will.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“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.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
“Limitations live only in our minds but if we use our imaginations our possibilities become limitless.”
“It is not enough to aim; you must hit.”
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
“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.”
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
“Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.”
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”
“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.”
“When I hear somebody sigh and say, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'”
“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, hoping we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
“Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream things that never were and say, ‘Why not?'”
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices… today I choose to feel life. Not to deny my humanity, but embrace it.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.'”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!”
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.”
“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.”
“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
“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.”
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.”
“If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.”
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”
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