Gary Parker

101 Of The Most Inspirational Quotes Of All Time

The most inspiring quotes from the most inspiring people throughout history. Save this list and reference it whenever you need a boost of energy, confidence, and hope. 
Mélanie Berliet
August 23, 2016
“Success is like wrestling with a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
— Robert Strauss, No Title
Tagged: Success, Overcoming Obstacles, perseverance, strength, Endurance, Motivational, motivation
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Failure, Fear
“Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Inspirational, Self love, Growing Pains, Empowering, Finding Yourself, Humans of New York
“Things usually work out in the end. What if they don’t? That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Tagged: Life, Perspective, Adversity, Ending, Life Comes Together
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Life, Happiness, travel
“Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself.”
— Tanya Burr, Love, Tanya
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Self-Love
“There is no situation which cannot be ennobled by work or else by endurance.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Summer is not forever; now build barns.”
— Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)
Tagged: Life
“It never always gets worse.”
— Dan Brannen, Going Long: Legends, Oddballs, Comebacks & Adventures
Tagged: Life
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
— Mo Willems, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Self-Love
“Strike—but listen!”
— Eurybiades, Themesticoles, The Battle of Salamis
Tagged: strategy
“I want them all to feel my power.”
— Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill, Churchill
Tagged: strategy, Fear, Power
“Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.”
— Unknown, Your Way
Tagged: Confidence, Life Flashes Before Your Eyes
“I am thankful for all of this who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
— Albert Einstein, Your Way
Tagged: Confidence, Life Flashes Before Your Eyes
“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.”
— Anonymous, Your Way
Tagged: Life, Inspirational
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill, Churchill: The Power of Words
Tagged: Success
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky, 99: Stories of the Game
Tagged: Sports, Sport Quotes, Try Harder, Failure Harder
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
Tagged: New, Make It New
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay, Fry The Monkeys - Create A Solution
Tagged: Motivational
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon, Redmoon
Tagged: Courage
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
— Jim Rohn, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
— W. Clement Stone, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
“Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
— Charles Kettering, Short Stories of Science and Invention: A Collection of Radio Talks by C.F. Kettering
Tagged: bright, Postive
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Aim, Motivational
“You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.”
— Joel Osteen, 365 Best Inspirational Quotes: Daily Motivation For Your Best Year Ever
“All great achievements require time.”
— Maya Angelou, 365 Best Inspirational Quotes: Daily Motivation For Your Best Year Ever: