Inspirational Quotes
Below is our collection of inspiring quotes to provide motivation, inspiration, and encouragement to you. They are about life, self-discovery, personal growth, and relationships. These quotes are uplifting to the heart, soul, and mind. Take a few moments to read some and slowly savor the valuable wisdom they offer. Reflect on the deep meaning and how it may apply to your life. Lastly, share your favorites with family and friends.
We write our own destiny; we become what we do.” Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” Plato
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the keys to my destiny.” –Elain Maxwell
“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi
“We will either find a way, or make one!” Hannibal
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Zig Ziglar
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” – Helen Keller
“Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.” David O. McKay
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.” – John Homer Miller
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.” – Keith Ellis, Bootstraps
“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” – Zig Ziglar
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” – Vince Lombardi
“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
“He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.” – Samuel Johnson
“No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.” – D.H. Lawrence
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” — James Dean
