121 Inspirational Quotes To Uplift

In our fast-paced world, a few words of wisdom can provide the perfect spark of motivation or a moment of solace. Whether you're looking for a daily dose of inspiration or seeking uplifting quotes to share with loved ones, you've come to the right place. We've carefully selected 121 of the most powerful inspirational quotes that promise to uplift your spirits and provide encouragement at any moment. Dive into this curated collection and let these timeless pieces of advice guide you through your journey.

1. “When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.” - C.S. Lewis

2. “As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.” - Mark Helprin

3. “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Walt Disney Company

4. “Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.” - Ann Brashares

5. “Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.” - Corrie Ten Boom

6. “Anda akan menjadi apapun yang sering Anda pikirkan mengenai diri Anda.” - John Kehoe

7. “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.” - John Boyle O'Reilly

8. “It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.” - John Knowles

9. “God save us from gloomy saints!” - St. Theresa of Avila

10. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” - Jim Morrison

11. “If life doesn't offer a game worth playing then invent a new one.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo

12. “What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.” - John Lubbock

13. “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” - Thomas A. Kempis

14. “The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.” - James Jones

15. “God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.” - David Livingstone

16. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” - Anais Nin

17. “In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.” - John Grogan

18. “No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.” - Sigmund Freud

19. “The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.” - Sam Keen

20. “There was something else that [Christopher] Reeve told me privately, off camera, and it made me grin. While he was lying in the hospital, just becoming conscious with tubes connected to all parts of his body, a doctor in a white coat came in and with a Russian accent, commanded: "Turn over!"Are you nuts? Reeve thought.I said: 'Turn over!'" the doctor repeated.As Reeve was about to answer "the imbecile", he realized there was something familiar about the man in the white coat. He wasn't a doctor at all. He was Reeve's old buddy from acting school at Julliard, Robin Williams. Reeve waited for a breath, and almost choked with laughter. He realized, he told me, "If I can laugh, I can live.” - Barbara Walters

21. “Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]” - Che Guevara

22. “The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.” - Sharon Salzberg

23. “I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.” - C.G. Jung

24. “Before you can speak the truth with your lips you must know truth in your heart.Psalm 15:2” - Deborah Brodie

25. “Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.” - Besa Kosova

26. “Success is something you attract by the person you become ” - Jim Rohn

27. “What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.” - Junot Diaz

28. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...” - Sir Francis Bacon

29. “Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.” - Doris Lessing

30. “I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.” - Colleen Houck

31. “Search for contentment in each person you meet.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.” - Gregory Maguire

33. “Success is 99 percent failure” - Soichiro Honda

34. “Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.” - Jodi Picoult

35. “As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.” - Stephen Fry

36. “Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life. The key for the betterment and completeness of modern living is education. But, ' Man cannot live by bread alone '. Man, after all, is also composed of intellect and soul. Therefore, education in general, and higher education in particular, must aim to provide, beyond the physical, food for the intellect and soul. That education which ignores man's intrinsic nature, and neglects his intellect and reasoning power can not be considered true education.” - Haile Selassie I

37. “Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).” - Michael J. Fox

38. “The only thing I am afraid of is fear.” - Arthur Wellesley

39. “Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.” - Nadia Janice Brown

40. “For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?” - George MacDonald

41. “Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.” - Sanaya Roman

42. “There are no tomorrow’s and there was no yesterday, what you have now is what you will have.” - Santosh Kalwar

43. “With sharing our common purpose we multiply and with keeping to ourselves we divide. ” - Santosh Kalwar

44. “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” - Euripides

45. “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

46. “Welcome to the Information Jungle.” - Tad Williams

47. “You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.” - Steve Maraboli

48. “Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.” - Leon Uris

49. “Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.” - Marc Bekoff

50. “No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.” - Dean Koontz

51. “The moon changes each night but she does so in an understandable rhythm. And just as the tides ebb and flow and the moon waxes and wanes, our bodies’ hormones ebb and flow and our energies wax and wane. Our bodies are more like the rivers than like the rocks, more like the oceans than like machines. The more we can respect the cycles and changes and needs of our bodies, the more we can move with the flow of our lives.In other words, swear by the moon. Or, trust your body.” - Golda Poretsky

52. “Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.” - Ray A. Davis

53. “El alma que hablar puede con los ojos también puede besar con la mirada.” - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

54. “I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.” - Oswald Chambers

55. “The downfall of any great nation...always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.” - Timothy Pina

56. “It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.” - Haruki Murakami

57. “Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.” - Katie Kacvinsky

58. “Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.” - Cassandra Duffy

59. “It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people's experiences. Often one has to make do with seeds; the germs of what might have been, had one's life been different.” - Virginia Woolf

60. “Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.” - Karen Kingsbury

61. “Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.” - Albert Einstein

62. “As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.” - George Alexiou

63. “Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.” - Joseph Conrad

64. “I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.” - Abraham Lincoln

65. “A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.” - Giovanni Della Casa

66. “Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;For I am like the Moon,you will see me with new face everyday.” - Rumi

67. “Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.The answers willcome to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all thewhile.” - Julia Quinn

68. “Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.” - Steve Backley

69. “If not you, who?” - Steve Backley

70. “Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie,când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine,când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine,Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.” - Bernhard Schlink

71. “Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything.” - Foundation for Inner Peace

72. “Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.” - Patrick Ness

73. “The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.” - Charles Bukowski

74. “ما أصعب الإنتظار .. لكن .. ما أجمل ما تحصل عليه من خلاله .. ما عليك سوي الإنتظار” - مسعد العرباني

75. “In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.” - Kristina McMorris

76. “If we the children of humanity don't start taking steps to walk towards world peace...Who will??? Why wait to make a difference...Start living a peaceful life-style today!✌” - Timothy Pina

77. “The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to let them grow forever, not in poems or marble, but where they fell and rotted. And the ships in their great stalls, huge and transitory as heroes, ships I could not captain, today I bring them back to let them sail forever, not in model or ballad, but where they were wrecked and scuttled. And the child on whose shoulders I stand, whose longing I purged with public, kingly discipline, today I bring him back to languish forever, not in confession or biography, but where he flourished, growing sly and hairy. It is not malice that draws me away, draws me to renunciation, betrayal: it is weariness, I go for weariness of thee, Gold, ivory, flesh, love, God, blood, moon- I have become the expert of the catalogue. My body once so familiar with glory, My body has become a museum: this part remembered because of someone's mouth, this because of a hand, this of wetness, this of heat. Who owns anything he has not made? With your beauty I am as uninvolved as with horses' manes and waterfalls. This is my last catalogue. I breathe the breathless I love you, I love you - and let you move forever.” - Leonard Cohen

78. “Your inner strength is your outer foundation” - Allan Rufus

79. “The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.” - Lorii Myers

80. “We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.” - Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

81. “رد عليه أوسر كاف بمرارة: " أوَتَظن أني لم أحاول يا ساحو رع؟!.. ولكن أنَّي لعقلي أن يهدأ وهو يموج بكل تلك المصائب؟!..” - صفاء صفوت

82. “At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.” - Lee L. Jampolsky

83. “Her mother was a cockle, but her father was no other than Uranus, who held the highest office in the universe, as no one held a higher office than the Sky. And she was born together with Himeros[Passion] & Chaos[Confusion] at the same time, & together, as the white foam[aphros] of semen issued from Uranus` severed testicles, which had entrapped Himeros & Chaos after the Big Bang, & floated on the Sea [Pontus].” - Nicholas Chong

84. “It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place." (p.120)” - Jeanette Winterson

85. “allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]There is no royal road to perfection.” - Frederick Douglass

86. “Hay pocas cosastan ensordecedorascomo el silencio” - Mario Benedetti

87. “A friend indeed is supportive, patient, understanding, sympathetic, caring and loving.” - Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela

88. “I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.” - Janet Rebhan

89. “Everyone loses at some point; but we can learn from loss.” - Adornetto, Alexandra

90. “Don't worry you will never find a rounded square” - Greigon Selwyn Mott

91. “Kobieta musi mieć w sobie to coś, mówił, swoją tajemnicę, wtedy dopiero jest warta zachodu.” - Maria Nurowska

92. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” - Matt D. Miller

93. “If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change” - Nancy S. Mure

94. “It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.” - Emmet Fox

95. “True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.” - Milissa R. Bailey

96. “Surviving ain't thriving.” - Peter James West

97. “Sometimes you have to go back to go forward.” - Sasha Cusimano

98. “Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.” - Harry Papas

99. “It is our ability to love that makes us most like the Creator…but to love in the face of loss and pain makes us more like God than ever.” - Douglas Patten

100. “Don't expect, but accept.” - Anirudh Hegde

101. “gooby pls” - dolan

102. “He was dead.No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.” - Prerna Varma

103. “You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

104. “Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!” - Lorii Myers

105. “Hindi para sa tamad ang pagsusulat dahil pag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang “sandali lang” o “teka muna”. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol.” - Bob Ong Stainless Longganisa

106. “... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different in all those things which pertain to our every day life ...” - Violette Nakhjavani

107. “I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.” - John Steinbeck

108. “Think, create, innovate!” - Innovators

109. “The first key to happiness, is to forgive.” - Andrew Trinh

110. “Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.” - Dan Millman

111. “فالدين عقل وعاطفة، وعلم وأدب، ونظر صائب، وبصيرة نيرة.” - محمد الغزالي

112. “When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.” - Neshialy S.

113. “Safety is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God.” - Jeanette Windle

114. “And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment’s happiness is flung so high and dazzling over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.” - Hermann Hesse

115. “Practice transforms a skill into an art” - siddharth joshi

116. “People mess up, you know? But you can’t see past it. It’s like you choose one thing about them—the worst thing—and say, ‘That’s who they are,’ and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?” - Sarah Skilton

117. “Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.” - Lisa Gardner

118. “Hey,Life only gets you down if you let it.” - Terri Fields

119. “Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.” - Steve Maraboli

120. “Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.” - Saji Ijiyemi

121. “Tell God how you feel, and don't be afraid to ask for a miracle.” - Shirley Corder