Wonderful Inspirational Quotes to Help You Create Positive Outlook About Life

Wonderful Inspirational Quotes To Help You Create Positive Outlook About Life

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

― Harvey Fierstein  

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

― Moliere  

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

― Henry David Thoreau  

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

― Walt Whitman  

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni  

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

― Norman Vincent Peale 

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophren

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”

― Nora Roberts   

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

― Galileo Galilei 

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni  

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi  

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

― Horton Foote  

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

― Maya Angelou   

 “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

― Rumi 

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea 

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”

― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi  

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club  

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

― C.S. Lewis

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations  

 “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

― Tupac Shakur

“Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted.
Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all.
There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens.
We’re all humans and we all have the same value.”

― Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

 “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.

 “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 “There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

"Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill. "

Neil Gaiman , Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” Victor Frankl

 "When you go through a hard period, when every thing seems to oppose you, when you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place the course will divert!"

Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway 

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

   “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”
― Tommy Lasorda

 “When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.”
― Michael J. Fox 

“It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.”
― Mark W Boyer  

“A flower earns its honor in the dirt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo  

 “You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff 

 “To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton 

“Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.”
― Margaret Mead  

 “Light has nowhere to hide in the dark.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo 

“Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep”
― Cllr Tahir Khan - Luton 

“The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.”
― Elizabeth Parker, Bark Out Loud! Motivational Quotes Inspired by Dogs

“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”
― Anais Nin  

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.
There is no such thing as a linear life.
But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”
― Brittany Burgunder 

“There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.”
― John R. Gouin 

“If luck has not yet knocked your gate, change the gate”
― Qaiser Abbas - Author of 'Tick Tick Dollar  

“It is better moving up to your goal and falling than not falling doing nothing”
― Qaiser Abbas - Author of 'Tick Tick Dollar  

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night 

 “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan 

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou  

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother 

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth 

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo  

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia 

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain 

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places 

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash 

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah 

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture 

“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones 

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
― J.K. Rowling

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
― Oscar Wilde 

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran 

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion 

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana 

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory 

“Never run from the enemy, tackle them”
― Victoria Addino 

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451  

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
― Stephen King, Duma Key 

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms 

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood 

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth 

“The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish.”
― Rodney Winters, Go Into the House

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Vince Lombardi
 

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau
 

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein
 

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Les Brown

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Henry Rollins

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
― Susan Polis Schutz 

  “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton 

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything 

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice