122 Inspirational Quotes

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often seek sparks of motivation and words of wisdom to uplift our spirits and guide our actions. Words have the power to evoke emotions, shift perspectives, and inspire greatness. Whether you're facing a challenging moment, setting new goals, or simply in need of a little encouragement, the right quote can serve as a powerful reminder of your inner strength and potential. In this collection, we've curated the top 122 inspirational quotes from thought leaders, historical figures, and modern-day motivators. Get ready to be inspired, motivated, and ready to take on whatever life throws your way.

1. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” - Winston S. Churchill

2. “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

3. “Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.” - Terry a O'Neal

4. “Love, too, was just a question of time” - Paulo Coelho

5. “It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.” - Lauren Zimmerman

6. “You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.” - Lauren Zimmerman

7. “Anybody can fail.” - M.G. Hardie

8. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.” - Karl Lagerfeld

10. “I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]” - Cormac McCarthy

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. “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

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

14. “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

15. “Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.” - T.F. Hodge

16. “Solitude is the house of peace.” - T.F. Hodge

17. “There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.” - T.F. Hodge

18. “When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.” - T.F. Hodge

19. “If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!” - T.F. Hodge

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

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

22. “The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.” - T.F. Hodge

23. “The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!” - T.F. Hodge

24. “I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve been playing with dead people since the day I was born, so it’s good thing, yet the Big Bad scared me. Which brings me to the reason I called.” “Which was to give me nightmares for the rest of my life?” “Oh, no, that’s just a plus. Why was I so scared of him?” “Hon, for one thing he was this powerful, massive, black smokelike being.”“So, you’re saying I’m a racist?” - Darynda Jones

25. “He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.” - Anne Brontë

26. “Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.” - T.F. Hodge

27. “Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

28. “It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy” - Matthew S. Williams

29. “Which came first — the observer or the particle?” - Vanna Bonta

30. “The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!” - Barrie Kerper

31. “The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.” - Gustave Flaubert

32. “My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.” - Henry Mosquera

33. “Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one.” - Robert Frost

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

35. “This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.” - Ryan S. Fortney

36. “God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

37. “There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...” - William Shakespeare

38. “I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies” - Sinclair Lewis

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

40. “From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.” - Wes Moore

41. “When dreams become words to share with others - amazing things can happen.” - Richard Hackett Jr

42. “Notice, when looking at quotes of each person - you'll never agree with every single quote of anybody's. We all have a different view of reality, of what is meaningful. This is why we can never argue, or there would be no man left alive - we have to agree to disagree, and just get on with it maybe laugh a little too. It's wonderful really - delightful - the infinte variety of wisdom and beauty! Let's accept it gladly” - jay woodman

43. “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

44. “There is still so much more to say ...” - R.M. Engelhardt

45. “It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.” - Nina Ardianti

46. “If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you?” - Elizabeth Parker

47. “Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?”- Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One: Beyond the Pale” - N.L. Armitage

48. “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

49. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen

50. “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” - Dr Roopleen

51. “Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.” - Dr Roopleen

52. “Without ambition, no goal can be met.” - Kya Aliana

53. “Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

54. “The world is God's salvation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

55. “Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

57. “Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “Procreation annihilates eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

63. “Do not look too far for you will see nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

64. “We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

68. “If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.” - Dejan Stojanovic

69. “Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?” - Dejan Stojanovic

70. “You don’t know anything, but I know even less.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

74. “Dreams are our only geography—our native land.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “I fly through memory to find a newborn love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

87. “To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “Good is not always good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

93. “Without nothing, everything would be nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.” - 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. “If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.” - Jack Canfield

99. “Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

103. “Do short people reach their full potential quicker?” - Benny Bellamacina

104. “رائعة صلاح عبد الصبور ، أحلام الفارس القديم” - صلاح عبد الصبور

105. “...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.” - Ruta Sepetys

106. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” - Madeline Miller

107. “My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

108. “The heaviest heart eventually heals to heavenly heights. Never give up.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

109. “The mind is your guard, the heart is your maid and the soul is your territory. Nobody else but you should have the control of these.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

110. “What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

111. “Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

112. “What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

113. “I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

114. “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

115. “May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupyingyour mind-set needs to be swept clean. May the disgusted look you impose on those you judge poor burn your eyes.That evil look occupying your clear vision needs to land in the bin. May that shameful attitude you impose on those you wish to feel lesser bring your soul to restlessness. That fake character you display needs to be thrown out of the window.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

116. “The moment of honouring our humanity is now.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

117. “Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

118. “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

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

120. “Football is the poetry of a motion.” - Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

121. “मेरी कविता क्या है!सच्चाई के दो मोती हैं; एक खुशी की परछाईं का एक दर्द की गहराई का --विकास प्रताप सिंह 'हितैषी” - VikasPratap Singh

122. “You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.” - Kellie Elmore