100 Inspirational Quotes to keep you motivated
Inspiring quotes can often help to uplift people at different times throughout their lives. I have collected 100 of my favorite inspirational quotes that I hope will inspire and uplift you. Share them with friends and family as you never know when someone may need a some wise words from some famous people to give them the lift they need.
There are quotes for business and for life in general. From business leaders, religious leaders and hey even some of my own thrown in there. Share them on Facebook Twitter or anywhere that you feel you can make a difference and be supportive. Here’s where you’ll find more inspiring quotes. Enjoy.
1. “Be yourself – everybody else is already taken” – unknown
2. “Success isn’t the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success” – Albert Schweitzer
3. “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford
4. “No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it”. – Napoleon Hill
5. “All limits are self imposed” – Unknown
6. “Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
8. “People become really quiet remarkable when they start thinking they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the secret to success.” – Norman Vincent Peale
9. “What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you”. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “I shut my eyes in order to see” – Paul Gauguin
11. “The only limit to realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D Roosevelt
12. “A man is but a product of his thinking, what he thinks he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
13. “Success is going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
14. “The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.”- Napoleon Hill
15. “A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it.”- Unknown
16. “It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. From true joy your service is maximal.”- Unknown
17. “Minds are like parachutes they only function when they are open.” – Thomas Dewar
18. “The journey is the destination.”- Unknown
19. “Change can come in a twinkling of an eye.” – St Paul
20. “One week without laughter makes one weak”. – Unknown
21. “A relationship does not depend on how well we know the other person; it depends on how well we know ourselves.” – Gaynor Parke
22. “If you search the world for happiness you will find it, for the world is round and it will lead you back to your door.” – Robert Brault
23. “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
24. “Be the change you want to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
25. “Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious” – Unknown
26. “Dreams are what keep our future alive and our thoughts are the fuel for our dreams. Sweet dreams” – Gaynor Parke
27. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. “ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown
29. “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. A true friend knows everything about you and still likes you.” – Unknown
30. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” – Napoleon Hill
31. “Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it.” – Napoleon Hill
32. “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” – Chinese Proverb
33. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
34. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen
35. “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin
36. “You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.” – unknown
37. “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
38. “Every evening write the 6 most important things you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.” – Tom Hopkins
39. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity – the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
40. “There is no one giant step that does it, it’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A Cohen
41. “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Allen Ashley Pitt
42. “Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance!” – Unknown
43. “Champions aren’t made in the gym, they are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Mohammad Ali
44. “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.” – Paul J Mayer
45. “Every achiever I have ever met said “My life turned around when I began to believe in me.” Robert Schuller
46. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” – Albert Einstein
47. “People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. People who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw
48. “Life is short, so break all the rules:- Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love Truly, Laugh Uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Unknown
49. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” – Jim Rohan
50. “When you are going through hell, keep going.” – Unknown
51. “All men die but few men live.” – Unknown
52. “Free yourself from the responsibility of making others happy.” – Stephen C Paul
53. “The only thing you are destined to become is the person your decide to be” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “The past is a ghost, the future a dream, all you ever have is now” – Bill Cosby
55. “I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?” – Henry Ford
56. “The mind is everything. What you think you become” – Buddha
Inspiring BUSINESS quotes
57. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
58. “A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.” Bo Bennett
59. “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
60. “You can take my business, burn up my building, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.” – Henry Ford
61. “It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.” – Marilyn Moats Kennedy
62. “Being an optimist after you’ve got everything doesn’t count.” – Kin Hubbard
63. “Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” – Unknown
64. “The ability to deal with people, is as purchasable commodity as sugar and coffee and I would pay more for that commodity than for any other under the sun.” – JD Rockefeller
65. “Don’t be afraid to give up good for great.”- JD Rockefeller
66. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford
67. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits, they will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford
68. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. “A person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – William Connor Magee
70. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford
71. “Few is the number of those who think with their own mind and feel with their own heart.” – Albert Einstein
72. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t.” – Henry Ford
73. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
74. “Many of the things you can count don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count really count.”– Albert Einstein
75. “Keep away from those who try and belittle your ambition. Small people always do that.” - Unknown
76. “Dreams are only foolish to people who lack them.” – Peter Reece
77. “A strong successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions.” – Orisen Mardon
78. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
79. “Losers visualize the penalties of failure; winners visualize the rewards of success.” – Rob Gilbert
80. “To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when no body else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
81. “Be bold and might forces will come to your aid.” – Basil King
82. “There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll
83. “Do not let what you cannot do, get in the way of what you can do.” – John Wooden
84. “The first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” – Sir William Osler
85. “Our power lies in our ability to decide.” – Buckminster Fuller
86. “The thing always happens that you really believe in. And the belief in the thing makes it happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
87. “A person’s way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.” – Wallace D Wattles
88. “We grew great with dreams. All big men are dreamers.” – Woodrow Wilson
89. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
90. “Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality – LJ Cardina Suenens
91. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T S Eliot
92. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen
93. “You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.” – Zig Ziglar
94. “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple, know what you are doing, love what you are doing and believe in what you are doing.” – Will Rogers
95. “In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
96. “Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history, give me a man with no goal and I’ll give you a stock clerk.”– JC Penny ( the man who stated Woolworths)
97. “Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell
98. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – by Helen Keller
99. “Love is like swallowing hot chocolate. Before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” – Unknown
100. “You as much as anyone deserves your love and respect.” – Buddha
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