Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You
On this page, I have gathered some of my favorite motivational quotes and inspirational quotes. You can read them whenever you need a boost of energy, to refocus your attention, or to shift your perspective.
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“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
― Steve Jobs
“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
― Albert Einstein
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
— Octavia Butler
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”
― Michelle Obama
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person.”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Work is love made visible.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
— Maya Angelou
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hard truth seems to be this: We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We would prefer it to be otherwise, of course, but there is no compelling evidence for a cosmic Parent who will care for us and save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”
― Carl Sagan
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Marukami
“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Ask yourself, “Who can I make smile this morning?” This is the art of creating happiness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
― Shirley Chisholm
"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
— John Steinbeck
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
— Sidney Poitier
“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
— William James
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
— Stephen Hawking
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
— Rumi
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— Alice Walker
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
— Galileo Galilei
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“Difficulties are just things to overcome.”
— Ernest Shackleton
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