101 Amazing Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

  101 Amazing Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
― Frank Warren 

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

― Martin Luther King Jr. 

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”

― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

 “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club  

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”

― Leo Buscaglia 

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

― Albert Einstein 

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

― Ovid 

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

― Victor Hugo

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

― Sam Levenson

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”

― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

  “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

― Alice Sebold 

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

― Ally Condie, Crossed

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

― Vincent Van Gogh

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

― Vincent van Gogh

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”

― Bill Watterson

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

― Mary Shelley

“Focus on your goals, not your fear.
Focus like a laser beam on your goals.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

― Tupac Shakur

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

― William Wilberforce

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

― Nicholas Klein

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

― Abraham Lincoln 

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson  


“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay  

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson 

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu  

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

― Leonardo da Vinci 


“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi


“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell


“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart  

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

 “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

― Leonardo da Vinci 

 

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

― Voltaire


 “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier 


“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd 

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

― Will Rogers 

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

― Bette Midler

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

― George Eliot  

 “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

― John Anster, The First Part of Goethe's Faust 

“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  

 “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
 

  “the time is always right to do the right thing”

― Martin Luther King Jr.