103 Inspirational And Awesome Quotes

In a world often filled with challenges and uncertainties, a few wise words can illuminate our path, uplift our spirits, and inspire us to strive for greatness. Quotes hold an incredible power; they encapsulate profound insights and life's timeless lessons within a handful of words. Whether you're seeking motivation to kickstart your day, guidance through a tough moment, or a gentle reminder of life's beauty, inspirational quotes can be a profound source of strength and encouragement. In this collection, we've gathered some of the most inspirational and awesome quotes that resonate with the human experience, offering wisdom, inspiration, and a fresh perspective on the journey of life.

1. “I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.” - John Steinbeck

2. “Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

3. “Only God is awesome.” - Shane Claiborne

4. “Do I want to change the world? To a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick up the ass.” - Green Day

5. “There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” - J. K. Rowling

6. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” - Bruce Lee

7. “They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power.” - Bill Clinton

8. “Love the life you live.Live the life you love.” - Bob Marley

9. “One can't learn much andalso be comfortableOne can't learn much andlet anybody else be comfortable” - Charles Fort

10. “Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew over in the wind and was dragged in under the awning of the intelligence tent every time the rain began. The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forward most position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland.For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left."In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna.” - Joseph Heller

11. “He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.” - Oliver Goldsmith

12. “Life is short, have dessert first.” - Joan Smith

13. “I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.” - Marlon Brando

14. “Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.” - Anthony Horowitz

15. “Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.” - Karen Abbott

16. “Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.” - G.K. Chesterton

17. “When you grow up the way I do, and the biggest thing in your life so far has been getting dunked in a glass tank by a man who acts like he’s mugging you but says instead he’s saving your soul, then celebrating your soul mugging at Sizzler with your parents (get the buffet by itself, not added on to a steak dinner, because the buffet already has sirloin tips), you need rules. And not their rules, not God’s rules, but mine. My own. Here’s on of Eliot’s Rules for Dating: When you first meet a girl, make sure you are accidentally conducting a chemistry experiment on your lips.OK. I didn’t say they were all good rules.” - Brad Barkley

18. “She looked like she believed in something, or wanted to, and I hoped to hell it wasn’t God, not in the way The Dad believes, because all that does is make him forced and desperate. No, it was something else, not just that I saw a pretty girl and just got all excited. I mean, yeah, that part is true, and she really was gorgeous, and the freckles covering her, the freckles on top of freckles all spread out and folding into one another made her skin look like it had grain and texture, like polished wood, like it would feel smooth to the touch, and so soft. I knew that. But it wasn’t how she looked.” - Brad Barkley

19. “Eliot, huh?" she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. "Is everyone in your family named for a famous symbolist poet?"No, I'm named for someone who was supposed to be in the Bible but isn't."No? What happened to him?"I glance over at her, the way the corner of her mouth turns up, half-smirk, half-smile. Her hair moves as she walks.He was called to be a disciple, but he had, you know, stuff to do."Stuff, like...polishing his sandals? Making lunch?"We keep walking, over the bridge across the lake, past the swings and the playground equipment, just walking.Exactly. And what about you, Calliope...is everyone in your family named after a...what is it? A keyboard? An organ?"It's a steam-powered piano. It's also the name of the Greek goddess of poetry. You should read stuff other than chemistry; you'd know these things." Her smirky smile again, her sleeve touching my arm.I feel like my skin has been removed, every nerve exposed. I open my mouth, and this comes out: "I think you are more goddess than piano." Stupid, stupid.But she laughs. "You know, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me today."You don't see too many calliopes," I tell her.I'm Cal, actually. I mean, that's what I prefer."I meant the steam pianos...you don't see too many." She stops and looks at me, full-on, and right away I put it on the list of the best moments in my life.Until you said that, Eliot, I wasn't fully aware of the demise of the steam piano, so thank you. Really."I smirk at her and we both fight not to smile. "Okay, smart-ass," I say.” - Brad Barkley

20. “I want to show you something,” I say.What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.” - Brad Barkley

21. “If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.” - Larry McMurtry

22. “She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.” - Matthew Skelton

23. “The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright that it dazzles instead of revealing.” - Alistair Gray

24. “What's my age again?” - Blink-182

25. “What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide” - Kenny Chesney

26. “You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.” - Kinky Friedman

27. “Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you," and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs?Sure thing, Pastor.” - Joan Bauer

28. “One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.” - Sky Masterson

29. “For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.” - David Levithan

30. “It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead” - Mike Dirnt

31. “Green Day is like sex. When we good we're really good! When we're bad... we're still pretty damn good!” - Mike Dirnt

32. “It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.” - Tre Cool

33. “She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” - Raymond Chandler

34. “... If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.” - J.D. Robb

35. “My name is Nicomo Cosca, famed solider of fortune, and I am here for dinner.” - Joe Abercrombie

36. “Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hands up! Hands where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up.Fucker." Jacobsen snarled it as he shoved Marcell to the ground. "On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my lieutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you.” - J.D. Robb

37. “When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.” - Jeanne DuPrau

38. “How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.” - Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)

39. “There is no short-cut to awesome.” - Zoe Winters

40. “It's the imperfections that make things beautiful” - Jenny Han

41. “It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a church; and while youth and early middle-age, while the stiff American breeze of example and opportunity were blowing upon it hard, had made the chamber of his brain a strange workshop of fortune. This establishment, mysterious and almost anonymous, the windows of which, at hours of highest pressure, never seemed, for starers and wonderers, perceptibly to glow, must in fact have been during certain years the scene of an unprecedented, a miraculous white-heat, the receipt for producing which it was practically felt that the master of the forge could not have communicated even with the best intentions.” - Henry James

42. “I like a little fight in my girls."She grinned at him,causing blood to dribble down her chin."Then you're going to love me.” - Kady Cross

43. “But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.” - Suzanne Collins

44. “Do you find this...distracting?” - Suzanne Collins

45. “Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas” - Mario Benedetti

46. “Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.” - Kim McDougall

47. “As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren” - Colleen Houck

48. “Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the cavernous void. Bridgemen cried out in dismay. Syl zipped about him with worry. Parshendi looked up with amazement as a lone bridgeman sailed through the air toward them. His drained, worn-out body barely had any strength left. In that moment of crystallized time, he looked down on his enemies. Parshendi with their marbled red and black skin. Soldiers raising finely crafted weapons, as if to cut him from the sky. Strangers, oddities in carapace breastplates and skullcaps. Many of them wearing beards. Beards woven with glowing gemstones. Kaladin breathed in. Like the power of salvation itself—like rays of sunlight from the eyes of the Almighty—Stormlight exploded from those gemstones. It streamed through the air, pulled in visible streams, like glowing columns of luminescent smoke. Twisting and turning and spiraling like tiny funnel clouds until they slammed into him. And the storm came to life again.” - Brandon Sanderson

49. “Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.” - Celia Rivenbark

50. “You are the sun, and I'm the moon. In your shadow I can shine.” - Tokio Hotel

51. “Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?""Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of were thickset and looked like bodyguards."Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle," said the pale boy carelssly, noticing where Harry was looking. "And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Ron gave a slight cough, which might have been hiding a snigger. Draco Malfoy looked at him. "Think my name's funny, do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."He turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” - J.K. Rowling

52. “When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.” - Criss Jami

53. “It's hard to describe the feeling. And I knew from Horus's memory that this kind of union was very rare-like the one time when the coin doesn't land heads or tails, but stands on it's edge, perfectly balanced. He did not control me. I did not use him for power. We acted as one. Our voices spoke in harmony. "Now." And the magic bonds that held us shattered. My combat avatar formed around me, lifting me off the floor and encasing me with golden energy. I stepped forward and raised my sword. The falcon warrior mimicked the movement, perfectly attuned to my wishes. Set turned and regarded me with cold eyes. "So, Horus," he said. "You managed to find the pedals of your little bike, eh? That does not mean you can ride." "I am Carter Kane," I said. "Blood of the Pharaohs, Eye of Horus. And now, Set-brother,uncle,traitor-I'm going to crush you like a gnat.” - Rick Riordan

54. “Sînt imorală, grozavă, brutală și mă mănâncă pielea, cu ce te pot servi?” - Vasile Rebreanu

55. “Your time has come to pick the road you walk in this tale.” - Claudio Sanchez

56. “Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.” - Rick Riordan

57. “The sun's glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.” - Michael R. Hicks

58. “You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for your sympathy.” - Alden Bell

59. “Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!” - April Henry

60. “I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)” - Taylor Swift

61. “Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an expert.” - Dennis Sharpe

62. “Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when hehurt you so badly?”Kellan:“It was lovebecause it was worth it.” - Jay Asher

63. “I'll never love you anymore than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than Ido, right this second.” - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

64. “That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this encounter would resound like the sound of footsteps.” - Akizuki Sorata

65. “Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don’t run from nothing… ‘cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can’t run fast.” - John Green

66. “Mmm. Cupcakes.” - Kiersten White

67. “If life gives you a curveball, then be the catcher and catch it.” - Fiona Boyd

68. “I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.” - Veronica Roth

69. “As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.” - Criss Jami

70. “If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.” - George R.R. Martin

71. “Plus my boots were made of awesome.” - Gwen Hayes

72. “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau

73. “Pics or it didn't happen.""Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.” - Rachel Caine

74. “Hey Audrey,I am watching you de-clutter your house,do you need help?” - Toni Aleo

75. “Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment” - Saira Viola

76. “BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!” - Steve Maraboli

77. “My name is Sabastian. I had a father, but he is dead. I had a mother, but she is dead to me. I have a brother, and I will Bind him to me. I have a sister, and I will teach her to love me. My name is Sabastain, and I am going to burn down the world” - Cassandra Clare

78. “Back the fuck off fluffy!” - Seth Tucker

79. “Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.” - J.K. Rowling

80. “At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.” - J.K. Rowling

81. “TO:[email protected]: Something's wrong! The house is shaking!TO:[email protected]: Well can you turn down the volume on Star Trek:Voyager? I thought we were having an earthquake when the Enterprise hit Warp speed. Why did you let me sleep until nearly one?” - Robert Bryndza

82. “Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.” - J.K. Rowling

83. “Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.” - J.K. Rowling

84. “Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.” - J.K. Rowling

85. “...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.” - John Piper

86. “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.” - Tom Hiddleston

87. “I found a copy of Leven's birth certificate and was surprised to see his birth name listed as E. Leven Thumps. I assume the E. stands for Elton, and I have no idea why they didnt spell it out, but it's intresting to think that it took exactly eleven whacks or thumps to down the oldest tree.” - Obert Skye

88. “At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time.""Made myself a batch with it," Shane said. "It's got the biohazard sticker on it in the fridge, so don't bitch if you get flamed.” - Rachel Caine

89. “So, here are my windows, stained all with me.” - Caitlín R. Kiernan

90. “A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra."You're psychotic," Kendra replied.” - Brandon Mull

91. “Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.” - Terry Pratchett

92. “Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.” - Ilona Andrews

93. “The word "awesome" is overused.” - Sdsdd2

94. “Her head titled to the side and her eyebrows crept up her face. It was her uh-durrr face, she was just too kind to actually say it to me.” - H.M. Ward

95. “If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.” - Rand Miller

96. “AWESOME!” - Neil Pasricha

97. “Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-""I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.” - Cassandra Clare

98. “Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.” - Maureen Johnson

99. “He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father's life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy...” - Sherman Alexie

100. “Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome!” - Duff Goldman

101. “The day we met, frozen I held my breath. Right from the start, I knew that I found the home for my heart beats fast. Colors and promises. How to be brave? How can I love, when i'm afraid to fall. But watching you stand alone,all of my doubts, suddenly goes away somehow. One step closer. I have died every day waiting for you, darlin' don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years, i'll love you for a thousand more ♛♥” - Glee Thousand Years Original Christina Perri

102. “If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.” - Lorii Myers

103. “Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do.” - Warren Ellis