Inspirational Quotations

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Let these inspirational quotations inspire you and bring you new perspectives.

In your journey of life, there's many times when you stop, feeling a little uncertain and hoping that some encouraging words will come your way.

You don't have to wait for others to comfort you. You can enjoy the timeless wisdom and brilliant encouragement from various teachers from different time periods.

Everyone runs short of inspiration at times. So open up and let these beautiful inspiring quotes bring you some inspired moments.

Enjoy this fresh series of inspirational quotations!

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
-- La Rochefoucauld

Concentration is the secret of strength.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, and should have.
-- Louis E. Boone

Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
-- George Patton

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.
-- Myrlie Evers

I shall not pass this way again; let me now relieve some pain, remove some barrier from the road, or lighten someone's heavy load.
-- Eva Rose York

I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
-- Og Mandino

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
-- Daphne Rose Kingma

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
-- Jennifer James

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
-- David Viscott

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Karl A. Menninger

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
-- Corita Kent

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes De Mille

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
-- Thomas Merton

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out ofstumbling blocks.
-- Jack Penn

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-- Barbara De Angelis

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-- Confucius

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.
-- Marel Morin

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I can't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
-- Paula Gunn Allen

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-- Michelangelo

The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles DuBois

The measure of people's real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out.
-- J.C. Macauley

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- e.e. cummings

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe is just.
-- Abraham Lincoln

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. Oneshould lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not only in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-- Marcel Proust

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.
-- Ernest Hemingway

There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
-- David Johnson

There will come a time, when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
-- Lois L'Amour

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
-- Pericles

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
-- Rachel Carson

Train your head and hands to do, your head and heart to dare.
-- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-- Robert Frost

We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
-- Ray Bradbury

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
-- Gloria Gaither

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
-- Anonymous

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
-- Margaret Chase Smith

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; Your mind trancends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-- Patanjali

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
-- Willa Cather

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