111 Inspirational Quotes

In a world that often moves at a breakneck pace, taking a moment to pause and seek out a bit of wisdom can offer the motivation and clarity we need. Inspirational quotes have the unique ability to capture profound truths in just a few words, providing a source of comfort, encouragement, and perspective. Whether you’re looking to uplift your spirits, ignite your passion, or simply gain a fresh outlook on life, we've curated a collection of the top 111 inspirational quotes that are sure to resonate. Allow these timeless words to inspire and guide you on your journey.

1. “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” - Susan Sontag

2. “No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!” - Tricia Cunningham

3. “You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.” - Max Lucado

4. “God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse) ” - Joseph Smith Jr.

5. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” - Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins

6. “You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo” - Mario Puzo

7. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” - George Lucas

8. “If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.” - Billy Sothern

9. “We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.” - James Redfield

10. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” - E. Joseph Cossman

11. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” - J.K. Rowling

12. “Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.” - Toni Morrison

13. “we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn” - Don Campbell

14. “Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday.” - L. Curt Erler

15. “Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again! ” - Dee Marie

16. “Like madness is the glory of this life.” - Shakespeare

17. “Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.” - Brendan Francis Brown

18. “Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.” - Corita Kent

19. “Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.” - Adrian Tan

20. “I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.” - Peter Ackroyd

21. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Sharon Salzberg

22. “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.” - Richard Bach

23. “take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.” - Scott Bradfield

24. “All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.” - Harvey Milk

25. “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

26. “Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.” - Janet Crain

27. “What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.""Isn't it?” - Ayn Rand

28. “You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.” - Ruben Dario

29. “There is no communication in this world except between equals.” - Ken Burns

30. “If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?” - Kay Ryan

31. “When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.” - Justina Chen Headley

32. “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” - Toni Morrison

33. “How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.” - Toni Morrison

34. “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” - Toni Morrison

35. “Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

36. “A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.” - Tobsha Learner

37. “People always ask me"Son what does it takeTo reach out and touch your dreams?"To them I always sayAre you hungry?Are you thirsty?Is it a fire that burns you up inside?How bad do you want it?How bad do you need it?Are you eating, sleeping, dreamingWith that one thing on your mind?How bad do you want it?How bad do you need it?Cause if you want it allYou've got to lay it all out on the line” - Tim McGraw

38. “If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” - Chad Sugg

39. “And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance......One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father.” - Michael J. Fox

40. “When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.” - Kelly Link

41. “At dawn of man, many words of inspiration.At the end, there will be words of revelation.” - Toba Beta

42. “I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.” - Stephen King

43. “Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive” - steve aylett

44. “GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.” - Lisa Washington

45. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.” - Henri Poincare

46. “Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.” - Alice Hoffman

47. “If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.” - Raymond I. OD Myers

48. “The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.” - David Richo

49. “You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.” - Martin Sheen

50. “YOU are your love of a lifetime.” - Steve Maraboli

51. “You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn’t disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her—and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us.” - Christina Westover

52. “Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.” - Ozzie Zehner

53. “Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.” - Shane Koyczan

54. “Watch what you ask for you just might get it.” - Marylin Schirmer

55. “The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.” - John Berry

56. “What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.” - Donna Quesada

57. “The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.” - Donna Quesada

58. “Head up, heart open. To better days!” - T.F. Hodge

59. “A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.” - George R.R. Martin

60. “Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.” - Criss Jami

61. “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.” - Criss Jami

62. “I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.” - Nina LaCour

63. “I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems” - Jim Henson

64. “The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.” - Allan Lokos

65. “I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.” - Maya Angelou (Author)

66. “The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.” - William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

67. “Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.” - Lola Jaye

68. “Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation.” - Toni Sorenson

69. “Scripture breathes wisdom like we breathe oxygen. It can't not. Through Scripture, God reveals himself. This wisdom cannot be captured, let alone contained, on a neon bumper sticker or rubber bracelet. Wisdom itself invites us to go deeper- right into a relationship with God himself.Through wisdom, we learn to love God and love what he loves. We find rich counsel on the life we were meant for- in our families, communities, and world. We discover our personal responsibilities to others. And we unearth how to put love into action." -Organic God” - Margaret Feinberg

70. “The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.” - Maurice Makalu

71. “My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.” - Tanya R. Liverman

72. “The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

73. “Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.” - Richard Halliburton

74. “Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.” - Lady Murasaki Shikibu

75. “Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!” - Lynn A. Robinson

76. “When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...” - Hiroko Sakai

77. “Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world,and known it,through the eyes of love.” - Rosie Alison

78. “winning one soul for JESUS CHRIST worth more than being famous in pleasing a sinful world” - James C. Uwandu

79. “...sometimes we can’t enjoy the bloom of a rose because we’re too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.” - Suzannah Daniels

80. “What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.” - Aberjhani

81. “...the real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ...” - John Geddes

82. “Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it.” - Doug Dillon

83. “Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.” - Doug Dillon

84. “Motivation gets you going; Inspiration keeps you going.” - Todd Stocker

85. “You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” - Jonah Lehrer

86. “What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.” - Kellie Elmore

87. “It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.” - Britney Spears

88. “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.” - Nikola Tesla

89. “الكسل مثل القطط بسبعة أرواح .. فاجعل عزيمتك بثمانية أرواح” - أحمد عمارة

90. “I know what evil looks like under the surface. No matter how beautiful the exterior, how good the lies, I don’t fool myself, not any more. You carry a terrible burden that no one – not even me – can really understand. But that doesn’t change who you are, Frost. You’re a good person. And I love you.” “I wish…” My voice cracked. “I wish I could believe in that.” Luca brushed the dishevelled strands of hair away from my face again and looked into my eyes. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep saying it until you do.” - Zoë Marriott

91. “The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.” - David McCullough Jr.

92. “We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.” - Aberjhani

93. “A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.” - Victor Hugo

94. “I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.” - Veronica Roth

95. “I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes…My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…” - Robert A. Wilson

96. “It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.” - Tim O'Brien

97. “The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.” - Shannon L. Alder

98. “Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.” - Daoud Hari

99. “Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥” - Lauren Oliver

100. “Life is granted to no man on a permanent basis. It is a privilege, and we must use out time wisely. It is up to each of us to make of it what we can.” - Mifune

101. “The Loguidice Fitness Equation: Eating Right + Knowing How to Workout + Consistency = Success” - Bill Loguidice

102. “You did not go through everything you’ve gone through just to end up in the same place you were when you started. Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand.” - Steve Maraboli

103. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

104. “Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

105. “I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.” - Yanni

106. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

107. “Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.” - Sally Jo Martine

108. “Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.” - Elizabeth Wein

109. “But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?” - Cecelia Ahern

110. “People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.” - Lorii Myers

111. “The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)” - Marie Forleo