These famous inspirational quotes will get your mind thinking. Are you spending your time wisely? Do you need a new outlook on life? Could a different perspective help you?
Check out this collection of famous inspirational quotes and be on your path to a new you (or at least be inspired to go on a walk or something).
Best Inspirational Quotes
- Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Tim Notke - Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King - Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
Michael Jordan - Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius - Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Jane Addams - Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
St. Francis De Sales - The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert Humphrey - The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King - Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Bruce Lee
- The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Thomas S. Monson - When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff - It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Inspirational Quotations About Life
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
Paul “Bear” Bryant
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it “The Present.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
What one can be, one must be.
Unknown
Inspiring Quotations
Talent is important, but nothing is more important than hard work.
Pat Riley
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Unknown
You can’t win if you don’t try.
Babe Ruth
He who seeks rest finds boredom – He who seeks work finds rest.
Unknown
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Unknown
Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit. And the sooner you realize that the better your life will be.
Vince Lombardi
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Unknown
Dr. Seuss Quotes
- Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
- A person’s a person, no matter how small.
- Sometimes, the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.
- Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Motivational Sayings
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Welsh Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people, know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, “We did it ourselves. “
Lao Tzu
Today, I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow, I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice
Each time someone stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Unknown
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
Arthur Ashe
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Tell me, and I forget; show me, and I remember; involve me, and I understand.
Unknown
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Notable Insights
It ain’t over till it’s over.
Yogi Berra
The world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Ella Williams
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With courage, you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Unknown
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Motivating Sayings
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared but still goes on.
Unknown
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore H. White
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Henry Drummond
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Unknown
Famous Sayings
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille - To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.z
Emily Dickinson - A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Gandhi - One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.
Wayne Gretzky - Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato - I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
E.B. White
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Short and Memorable
- True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
St. Francis of Assisi - Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.
Unknown - In teaching others, we teach ourselves.
Unknown - A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
Unknown
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Founder and Editor, Sports Feel Good Stories
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