58 Awful Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational quotes are often a go-to for motivation, uplifting spirits, and finding direction in life. But let's face it, not all quotes hit the mark. Some are downright awful, leaving us scratching our heads or laughing out loud at their sheer absurdity. In this lighthearted post, we've curated a collection of the top 58 most awful inspirational quotes that are bound to entertain, perplex, and maybe even provide a little misguided encouragement. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy this compilation of the best of the worst in the world of motivational quotes.

1. “Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.” - Ray Bradbury

2. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.” - Alice Walker

3. “Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.” - Sherwood Smith

4. “The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.” - Erica Jong

5. “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!” - Leo Tolstoy

6. “This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.” - Roman Payne

7. “You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty.” - Toba Beta

8. “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.” - Lemony Snicket

9. “People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.” - Anne Rice

10. “Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.” - Tamora Pierce

11. “When you're in bad mood, you find jerk on anywhere.” - Toba Beta

12. “There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.” - Diana Pharaoh Francis

13. “The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.” - J.B. Thomas

14. “No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.” - Holly Black

15. “I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.” - Holly Black

16. “It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.” - Terry Pratchett

17. “I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.” - Ernest Hemingway

18. “Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.” - Irving Kirsch

19. “Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” - Karen Marie Moning

20. “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

21. “Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.” - Joseph Heller

22. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.” - Criss Jami

23. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami

24. “Bags!” - Terry Goodkind

25. “And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.” - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

26. “Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life” - Sonia Rumzi

27. “When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”“We all felt it,” Nick said.“You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.“What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?”Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.”“But you do think that something changed. . . .”“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.”“What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?” - Neal Shusterman

28. “Also not the kind of place to hide a server.""Is that another pun?" She asked."No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5” - Ridley Pearson

29. “See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.” - Velyn Cooper

30. “Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

31. “Algunas veces, sólo decir que odias algo y que alguien esté de acuerdo contigo puede hacer que te sientas mejor, a pesar de lo terrible de la situación.” - Lemony Snicket

32. “La adopción es una decisión muy importante, algo que no suele suceder de forma impulsiva. Estoy seguro de que vosotros habéis deseado en algún momento de vuestra vida haber sido educados por gente distinta a la que os está educando, pero en el fondo de vuestro corazón sabíais que las posibilidades eran mínimas.” - Lemony Snicket

33. “No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos” - Lemony Snicket

34. “Es muy útil, cuando uno es joven, aprender la diferencia entre «literal» y «figurado». Si algo ocurre de forma literal, ocurre realmente; si algo ocurre de forma figurada, es como si estuviese ocurriendo. Si tú estás literalmente volando de alegría, por ejemplo, significa que estás saltando en el aire porque te sientes muy contento. Si, en sentido figurado, estás saltando de alegría, significa que estás tan contento que podrías saltar de alegría, pero que reservas tu energía para otros asuntos.” - Lemony Snicket

35. “Si conocieseis al Conde Olaf y éste de repente os sirviese el desayuno, ¿no temeríais que contuviese algo terrible, como veneno o cristal hecho añicos?” - Lemony Snicket

36. “Cualquiera que conociese a Violet se hubiera dado cuenta de que estaba pensando intensamente, porque llevaba la larga melena recogida con una cinta para que no se le metiera en los ojos. Violet tenía el don de inventar y construir extraños aparatos, y su cerebro se veía inundado a menudo con imágenes de poleas, palancas y herramientas, y ella no quería que algo tan trivial como su cabello la distrajese.” - Lemony Snicket

37. “«Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.” - Lemony Snicket

38. “Tu opinión inicial acerca de casi cualquier cosa puede cambiar con el paso del tiempo.” - Lemony Snicket

39. “pero es una triste realidad de la vida que, cuando alguien ha perdido a un ser querido, a veces los amigos le esquivan, justo en el momento en que su presencia es mucho más necesaria.” - Lemony Snicket

40. “El olor de comida cocinándose es a menudo relajante.” - Lemony Snicket

41. “Estoy seguro de que en el transcurso de vuestra vida os habréis dado cuenta de que las habitaciones de las personas reflejan su personalidad. En mi habitación, por ejemplo, he reunido una colección de objetos que son importantes para mí, y que incluyen un polvoriento acordeón en el que puedo tocar algunas canciones tristes, un legajo de notas sobre las actividades de los huérfanos Baudelaire y una fotografía borrosa, hecha hace mucho tiempo, de una mujer llamada Beatrice. Son objetos muy valiosos e importantes para mí.” - Lemony Snicket

42. “Pero las leyes son un poco raras. Por ejemplo, un país de Asia tiene una ley que obliga a que todas las bicicletas tengan las ruedas del mismo tamaño. Una isla tiene una ley que prohíbe que nadie recoja la fruta. Y una ciudad no demasiado alejada de donde vivimos tiene una ley que me prohíbe acercarme a menos de ocho kilómetros de sus límites.” - Lemony Snicket

43. “Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

44. “Concentrated power is bad""(name of chapter)” - William J Federer

45. “There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.It’s no good getting worked up about stuff – it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.” - jay woodman

46. “The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.” - Neal Shusterman

47. “Strange how something good can come from something horrible.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

48. “Blogis nėra negeri poelgiai, o tai, kaip bjauriai po to jautiesi.” - Gregory Maguire

49. “That’s a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.” - Sophie Page

50. “I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.” - Jessica Sorensen

51. “Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

52. “Hey Rid?"She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could..."Yeah, Shrinky Dink?""You're not all bad."She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.” - Kami Garcia

53. “You’ve got a good side?”“I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.” - Faye Kellerman

54. “Good and bad exist always, everywhere” - R. Alan Woods

55. “Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.” - Ryan Sohmer

56. “My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.” - Laura Wiess Such a Pretty Girl

57. “None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.” - Dan Harmon

58. “Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.” - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso