110 Paraphrased Inspirational Quotes

Finding the right words to inspire and motivate can sometimes feel like a daunting task. Whether you're looking to uplift yourself or share positivity with others, a well-phrased quote can make all the difference. In this blog post, we've curated a selection of the top 110 paraphrased inspirational quotes that capture the essence of wisdom, perseverance, and hope. Dive in and let these reimagined words of wisdom spark your inner fire and guide you towards a more inspired life.

1. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” - Albert Einstein

3. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” - Walter Langer

4. “All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.” - Kurt Vonnegut

5. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” - Mother Teresa

6. “Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” - Charles Bukowski

7. “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” - Oscar Wilde

8. “The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” - Tracy Thompson

9. “It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.” - Grantland Rice

10. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” - C.E.M. Joad

11. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa

12. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas A. Edison

13. “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” - Mother Teresa

14. “So many things to see, people to do.” - Neil Gaiman

15. “I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]” - Philip Pullman

16. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa

17. “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure” - Oscar Wilde

18. “Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.” - Cathy Hopkins

19. “God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” - Mother Teresa

20. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill

21. “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!” - Kurt Vonnegut

22. “What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.” - The Reduced Shakespeare Company

23. “I came, I saw, I concurred...” - Darren E. Laws

24. “Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.” - Anne Rice

25. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” - Richard Lingard

26. “When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.” - Joan Bauer

27. “The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.” - Charles Bukowski

28. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” - Helen Fielding

29. “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” - Mother Teresa

30. “I get mail; therefore I am.” - Scott Adams

31. “There is no God and we are his prophets.” - Cormac McCarthy

32. “Nothing is forever except change.” - Gautama Buddha

33. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” - Mother Teresa

34. “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we'll die” - Dave Matthews

35. “To be or not to be. That's not really a question.” - Jean-Luc Godard

36. “Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.” - Terry Pratchett

37. “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

38. “The proper study of Mankind is Everything.” - Margaret Atwood

39. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” - Walter H. Cottingham

40. “Excess makes the heart grow fonder...” - John Balance

41. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” - Mother Teresa

42. “It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.” - Neil Gaiman

43. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” - Mother Teresa

44. “It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.” - Joey Green

45. “Women should be obscene and not heard.” - Paul Meredith Potter

46. “I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.” - Tara Bray Smith

47. “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” - Bertrand Russell

48. “Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.” - Dick Francis

49. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little” - Shannon Hale

50. “Time wounds all heels.” - Groucho Marx

51. “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” - Groucho Marx

52. “If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.” - Mother Teresa

53. “We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54. “Mothers are the necessity of invention.” - Bill Watterson

55. “Macon EthanI lay my head down on his chest and cried because had livedbecause he had dieda dry ocean, a desert of emotionhappysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under mei could hear the sound but i could not understand the words and then i realized the sound was me, breakingin one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothingi was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything elsesomething in me died, something in me was born, i only knewthe girl was gonewhoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the waythe world ends not with a bang but a whimperclaim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claimgratitude fury love despair hope hatefirst green is gold but nothing green can staydonttrynothinggreencanstay-Lena Duchannes” - Kami Garcia

56. “Science advances one funeral at a time.” - Max Planck

57. “He who hesitates is a damned fool.” - Mae West

58. “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else” - L.J. Smith

59. “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” - Philip Pullman

60. “Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come” - Mario Puzo

61. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.” - Anna Godbersen

62. “Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.” - Chinua Achebe

63. “Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.” - Banksy

64. “The curve is more powerful than the sword.” - Mae West

65. “The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly” - André Breton

66. “Familiarity breeds complacency.” - Rick Warren

67. “What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.” - Marian Keyes

68. “If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?” - Brad Warner

69. “I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.” - Linus Pauling

70. “Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.” - Mother Teresa

71. “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.” - Arthur Rimbaud

72. “You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

73. “What will be is up to me” - Kevin Green

74. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.” - William Shakespeare

75. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.” - Lisa Mantchev

76. “There's none so blind as those who will not listen.” - Neil Gaiman

77. “Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.” - Lisa Shearin

78. “And then what?""I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.” - Ilona Andrews

79. “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” - G.K. Chesterton

80. “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” - Oscar Wilde

81. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” - Seth Grahame-Smith

82. “It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.” - Julie James

83. “If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” - Maurice Maeterlinck

84. “I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.” - Demetri Martin

85. “Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels” - Jill Shalvis

86. “Genius has its limitations.Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker” - Darynda Jones

87. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.” - Charles Stross

88. “Atlas smirked.” - Rick Riordan

89. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” - Oscar Wilde

90. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” - Barbara de Angelis

91. “Evil will win if good people do nothing.” - P.C. Cast

92. “Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.” - Amy Sedaris

93. “Believe everything you read” - Kurt Cobain

94. “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.” - Diogenes Laertius

95. “We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".” - Malcolm X

96. “...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess” - Jack Kerouac

97. “The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe” - Louis Mountbatten

98. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size” - Melissa Nathan

99. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

100. “Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.” - Lev Grossman

101. “When a man plans, a woman laughs.” - David Wong

102. “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.” - Sound of America (E.Hale)

103. “You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.” - Cassandra Clare

104. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.” - Julia Quinn

105. “Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” - Louise Brooks

106. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Henry Thomas Buckle

107. “The only good human being is a dead one.” - George Orwell

108. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good riding crop must be in want of a pair of bare buttocks to trash.” - William Codpiece Thwackery

109. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.” - Lauren Willig

110. “See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.” - Terry Pratchett