“There are no useless individuals in life. We only have individuals who abuse and make useless their potentials. Don't be one!”
- Samuel A. Ajayi (THE AMBASSADOR)
This page contains an archive of powerfully inspirational quotes by me and other great and powerfully inspired men around the world (from virtually all walks of life). This archive of inspirational quotes is given here for your inspirational delight and is updated regularly from time to time. Before proceeding to see the inspirational quotes however, kindly read the motivational article on this page. It is guaranteed to motivate and truly inspire you. The article tells you basically what inspirational quotes can achieve in your life. HAPPY READING!
HOW POWERFUL CAN INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BE?
Do not underestimate the power of inspirational quotes. Great quotes do not only change lives, but also have the potential of changing a nation as a whole, if everyone listens and pays attention to the wisdom of the wise. Words have enormous power!
Every now and then, great individuals, like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Theresa, appear and teach us great deals about life. Whether you are in a bad relationship, bad health, have problems with your work, family, children, or just feeling depressed, not motivated, unable to move on with life, you will find one of the very many inspirational quotes on this blog useful and powerful enough to give you a mental boost for crossing the junction of your life.
God’s original plan and purpose for us is to enjoy life but why then, are there so many unhappy people? There are thousands of reasons for this. First, you can be rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, if you choose not to be happy, you will not be. Sometimes miseries are caused by others, but most of the time is it is we ourselves that are responsible for our misfortune.
How often do we ask ourselves, why am I not happy? Do I want more of these or more of that? Well, this is where inspirational quotes come in handy. They serve as a reminder to help us to see that what we already have and/or where we are is not good enough and that we should aspire for greater heights. They also help us to see the need to be appreciative and grateful to God from time to time.
Life is about making choices. Every moment is about making a choice. Do you choose to be happy from time to time? If not, why not? What is your core value? What do you want from life?
"Foolishness, greed and hatred are the three poisons that ruin lives." How true is that! Well, this is one of the things great sayings and quotes achieve – they make you think and reflect.
In conclusion, deep down inside, everyone wants to live a fulfilling life. It is why we are here, what we are here for - to learn and grow and to get the best out of life. Most times, we cannot achieve these ourselves. We need encouragement and motivation as constant companions all the way. No matter who you are – an executive, business man, teacher, parent, student - you need constant encouragement and motivation to keep you going in all your endeavours.
So everyday, be sure that you:
1. Read a good quote a day. At least, just one, and think about what the person who said it really mean and how that can apply to your daily life.
2. Place your favorite quote in front of your computer to lift you up, especially when you are down in the spirit. It goes a long way to get you strong at such times.
3. Always refer to inspirational quotes that change lives whenever you need help to keep you going. On this blog, the inspirational quotes page is being updated on a regular basis.
4. Do not hesitate to talk to good, responsible and caring friends. No matter who they are, you’ll be surprised that things they say sometimes help to guide you along life’s path, consciously or unconsciously. Now enjoy the unending list of inspirational quotes given below! Happy inspiring moment!
“If your life is based on FACTS, you won't go too far in life but let your life be based on faith and you'll never FADE.”
- Samuel A. Ajayi (THE AMBASSADOR)
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot;
But make it hot by striking.”
- William B. Sprague
“It is hard to fail,
But it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Fortune favors the brave.”
- Publius Terence
"There is no pillow that is as soft and comfortable as a rest of mind
and you can only get it from God."
- “Nothing can stop the man
with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal;
Nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.”
- W.W. Ziege
"If I am not in harmony with myself,
I cannot be in harmony with others.
Because only that can be established outside what exists inside.
A depressed violin can mess up an entire orchestra.
If I do not like myself, I cannot really like others. "
- Peter Müller
“There is only one success –
To be able to spend your life in your own way.”
- Christopher Morley
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing –
That's why we recommend it daily.”
- Zig Ziglar
“That some achieve great success,
Is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. “
- Abraham Lincoln
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps
By which the most insignificant success is achieved. “
- Anne Sullivan
“Real difficulties can be overcome;
It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. “
- Theodore N. Vail
“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. “
- Jameson Frank
“Far better it is to dare mighty things,
To win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,
Than to rank with those poor spirits
Who neither enjoy nor suffer much
Because they live in that gray twilight
That knows neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“So go ahead and make mistakes.
Make all you can.
Because that's where you will find success.
On the far side of failure. “
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
"You must do the things you think you cannot do".
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
- Cicero
"I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self."
- jlh
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't."
"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
- Epicurus
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."
- Saint Basil
"We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart."
- jlh
“Impression without expression usually leads to depression”
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
"You must do the things you think you cannot do".
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
- Cicero
"I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self."
- jlh
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
- C. G. Jung"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't."
- Richard Bach (Illusions)
"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
- Epicurus
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."
- Saint Basil
"We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart."
- jlh
“Impression without expression usually leads to depression”
- Anonymous
- Chester A. Pennington
"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."
- Henri L. Bergson
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
- Douglas Adams
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller
"Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory."
- jlh
"Like a bird in flight, your life can soar above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past."
- jlh
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
- Thomas Jefferson
"My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on."
- the movie Forrest Gump
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."
- Montaigne
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same."
- Flavia Weedn
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out."
- Roy Croft
"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
- Willa Cather
"I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them."
- Anonymous
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with nogoals and I'll give you a stock clerk."
- J. C. Penny
“There are three categories of people on earth. The first category sees problems, ignore them and never do anything about them. The second category see problems ignore them and wish that someday, someone else will attend to them. But the third category sees problems and takes steps to solve them”
- Anonymous
"You gotta keep on keepin' on."
- Joe Dirt
“The beauty of life is not always in how happy you are but in how happy others are because of you”
- Anonymous
"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl."
- Benjamin Jowett
“You don’t have to be in hell when you can have divine help”
- Anonymous
"My life is my message."
- Mahatma Ghandi
“A bible in the heart is worth more than 20 on the shelf”
- Anonymous
"The man who is not dead still has a chance."
- Lebanese proverb
“Winners make great things happen while losers watch great things happen”
- Anonymous
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
- Robert Schuller
- Robert Schuller
“God may never open heavens if you keep your mouth shut”
- Anonymous
"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
— John McConnell,
Founder of International Earth Day
“If you ever see people without a smile, give them one of yours”
- Anonymous
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi
“God’s ways that look ridiculous usually lead to the miraculous”
- Anonymous
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke
“You can never stumble while you are on your knees”
- Anonymous
"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Your prayer or fasting will not change your situation until it first changes your imagination”
- Anonymous
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
— Jimmy Carter
“In odd situations, rather than complain to God, comply with God”
- Anonymous
"For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?"
— Job 27:8
“Do not face the day until you first face God”
- Anonymous
"The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable."
— Confucius
“If you fail to prepare and you appear, you will have to repair”
- Anonymous
"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Prayer plus proper preparation prevents poor performance”
- Anonymous
"Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around."
— Sister Dorothy Stang,
An eco-activist nun from Dayton, Ohio, who in 2005 was murdered in the Brazilian Amazon
"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."
— Gaylord Nelson
Former Governor of Wisconsin, co-founder of Earth Day
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
— Jean Paul Richter,
German Romantic novelist and humorist
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."
— Virgil
"A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world."
— Shakyamuni
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James
"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."
- Walter Hagen
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin
"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."
- Eckhart Tolle
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
- Ernest Holmes
"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
- Helen Keller
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
- James M. Barrie
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."
- Henry Ford
"A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am."
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am."
- Anonymous
"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right."
"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right."
- Henry Ford
"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
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C. S. Lewis
"Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
- Nelson Mandela
"Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right."
- Henry Ford
"Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you."
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."
- Amelia Earhart
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
- Elbert Hubbard
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation."
- Dale Carnegie
"In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"All things at first appear difficult."
- Chinese proverb
"Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting."
- The Buddha
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
- William Shakespeare
"Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself."
- Sidney Sheldon
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- William Faulkner
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
- Helen Keller
"True courage is taking another small step each day toward achieving your vision."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
- John Lennon
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps."
- Thurgood Marshall
"Be careful the friends you choose - for you will become like them."
- W. Clement Stone
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
- Anonymous
"Don't hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgemental and lazy mind."
~~ Kyong Ho
~~ Kyong Ho
"The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
- old English proverb
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
- Joseph Campbell
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese Proverb
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm."
- Arnold J. Toynbee
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
- William Blake
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
- W. Clement Stone
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
- Cicero
"Begin each day as if it were on purpose."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
- Hasidic Saying
"Every wall is a door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
~~ Brendan Francis
~~ Brendan Francis
"The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small."
~~ Wittier Bynner
~~ Wittier Bynner
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
~~ Denis Waitley
~~ Denis Waitley
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
- Vince Lombardi
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
- Vince Lombardi
"Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities."
- John Wooden
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
- Vince Lombardi
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong
"Success demands singleness of purpose."
- Vince Lombardi
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
- Vince Lombardi
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
"Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful."
- John Wooden
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
- Babe Ruth
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
- John Wooden
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
~~ Henry Ford
~~ Henry Ford
"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."
~~ Stanley Arnold
~~ Stanley Arnold
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford
"There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought."
- Laurence J. Peter
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
- James Dewar
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."
- Mark Twain
"Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
- Mark Twain
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Winston Churchill
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"
. - Mark Twain
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
- Oscar Wilde
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde
"Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
"You gotta keep on keepin' on."
- Joe Dirt
- Joe Dirt
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Helen Keller
"The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
- Tom Bodett
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
- James M. Barrie
"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
- Napoleon Hill
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
- Anonymous
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"No one knows what he can do until he tries."
- Publilius Syrus
"Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
- W. Clement Stone
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Eddie Rickenbacker
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
- Louisa May Alcott
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl."
- Benjamin Jowett
- Benjamin Jowett
"My life is my message."
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Mahatma Ghandi
"The man who is not dead still has a chance."
- Lebanese proverb
- Lebanese proverb
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