121 Inspirational And Motivational Quotes

In a world that often moves at a relentless pace, taking a moment to pause and seek inspiration can be both rejuvenating and empowering. Whether you're chasing a personal goal, facing a challenging day, or simply in need of a gentle push, the right words can light the spark that propels you forward. Dive into our carefully curated collection of the top 121 inspirational and motivational quotes. Each quote is a timeless nugget of wisdom, offering fresh perspectives and uplifting sentiments that resonate with readers from all walks of life. Let these words serve as your guide, fueling ambition and sparking a renewed sense of purpose in your journey ahead.

1. “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” - Marlene Dietrich

2. “All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.” - Sarah Dessen

3. “To err is human, to purr is feline.” - Robert Byrne

4. “In quoting others, we cite ourselves.” - Julio Cortazar

5. “Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.” - Stephenie Meyer

6. “I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.” - Karl Lagerfeld

7. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

8. “The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.” - Robert DeCoteau

10. “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” - Deepak Chopra

11. “Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.” - T.F. Hodge

12. “What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.” - T.F. Hodge

13. “When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.” - T.F. Hodge

14. “Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.” - T.F. Hodge

15. “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.” - T.F. Hodge

16. “Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!” - T.F. Hodge

17. “If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.” - T.F. Hodge

18. “Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.” - T.F. Hodge

19. “Be the winner in your life!” - Dr. Tae Yun Kim

20. “You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.” - Louisa May Alcott

21. “Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.” - Shannon Alder

22. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” - Deepak Chopra

23. “I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.” - Karl Lagerfeld

24. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” - Brian Tracy

25. “To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.” - T.F. Hodge

26. “Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown.” - T.F. Hodge

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

28. “Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.” - T.F. Hodge

29. “You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” - John Eliot

30. “Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!” - Nandini Deka

31. “Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.” - T.F. Hodge

32. “There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.” - Henry Mosquera

33. “Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.” - W.H. Auden

34. “I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.” - Henry Mosquera

35. “People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.” - Elizabeth Chandler

36. “For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

37. “berhati-hatilah kalo menghujat para maling dan pelacur. "Because we might do the same.” - Rama Wibi

38. “Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT” - Eddie Johnson

39. “Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012)” - Shaun F. Messick

40. “So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate,but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter,If finely-wrought talentsdon’t weigh in the balance,I can always write haiku on Twitter.” - Rosy Cole

41. “Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

42. “Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'” - Arthur Conan Doyle

43. “Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.” - Marian Bendeth

44. “Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

45. “I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.” - Sandra Chami Kassis

46. “The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.” - Elizabeth Parker

47. “I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.” - Billy Ray Chitwood

48. “Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.” - Robert M. Hensel

49. “A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.” - Robert M. Hensel

50. “Let the trials in your life guide you not define you” - Kim Cormack

51. “You`ll wondering why aren`t you born in Japan if you think you`re an Otaku” - Otaku Quotes

52. “There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…” - Dan Stevens

53. “To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.” - Dr Roopleen

54. “To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.” - Dr Roopleen

55. “Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.” - Dr Roopleen

56. “The universe is God's son.” - Dejan Stojanovic

57. “Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “God is a cloud from which rain fell.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “In the essence of truth lies deceit.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “Procreation annihilates eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.” - Dejan Stojanovic

63. “Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.” - Dejan Stojanovic

64. “Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “Teaching others, he corrected himself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

67. “Either you will be you or you will not be at all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

68. “Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.” - Dejan Stojanovic

69. “Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.” - Dejan Stojanovic

70. “Disease often comes with a smiling face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “If you are good, they say you are weak.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.” - Dejan Stojanovic

73. “Without space, there is no time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.” - Dejan Stojanovic

93. “From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “The farther away, the closer the home becomes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

96. “Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

97. “The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

98. “There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “Creating means living.” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.” - Dejan Stojanovic

105. “Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

106. “He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

107. “In greatness, life and death merge.” - Dejan Stojanovic

108. “They are both spectacular, Life and death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

109. “The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.” - Erin Morgenstern

110. “What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.” - Lisa Gardner

111. “Don't blame others for your assumption of their actions; the best resolution is to simply ask.” - A.R. Voss

112. “Maybe there is something. Something deep. Something in border of physical and incomprehensible. Something unknowable. Something completely beyond of all psychological, logical and scientific definitions about human. Something, for which the death is no irreversible limit.Something so strange and absurd.Something infinite and eternal in Homo Sapiens. Never - dying fire. The human spirit".” - Alexandar Tomov

113. “Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

114. “Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.” - John Green

115. “My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

116. “I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

117. “A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

118. “Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

119. “Non badavo granché a tematiche o felicità di stile, e saltavo le descrizioni minute di tempo atmosferico, paesaggi e interni. Volevo personaggi in cui potessi credere, e volevo provare curiosità per ciò che avrebbero vissuto. […] Romanzi a sensazione, alta letteratura e tutto ciò che stava nel mezzo: a ognuno riservavo lo stesso rude trattamento.” - Ian McEwan

120. “Creo que somos más grandes que la suma de nuestras partes.” - John Green

121. “It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays...most people survive; that is all.” - Sandra Chami Kassis