50 inspiring and motivating quotes
by TeachThe staff of thought
What are the most inspiring quotes about life? Well, it depends on what type of inspiration you are looking for.
Life quotes cover the human condition, from suffering to possibility, from hope to sacrifice, from love to loss. The best quotes about life are often those that contain truth, motivation, and insight into a concept that, at this time in your life, seems poignant, useful, and just the bit of wisdom you needed.
50 quotes to inspire
“You shouldn’t wish for another life. You shouldn’t want to be someone else. What you must do is this: Rejoice always. –Wendell Berry
“Live, travel, adventure, bless and be not sorry.” –Jack Kerouac
“Each of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you won’t find another one. –Carl Sagan
“One of the purposes of human life, no matter who controls it, is to love whoever is there to be loved.” -Kurt Vonnegut
“Personal development is retarded by the establishment of social regulation of education, by the diffusion of true knowledge and by the improvement of mental faculties. » –Nietzsche
“Every act of perception is, to some extent, an act of creation, and every act of memory is, to some extent, an act of imagination.” –Olivier Sacs
“Men must not only know, they must act. » –WEB Du Bois
“You don’t find life happy. You succeed. –Camilla Eyring Kimball
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It is. –William James
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” –Winston Churchill
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“Never lower your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. » –Hélène Keller
“Rather than love, than money, than glory, give me the truth.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trace.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Change will not come if we wait for someone else or another time. We are the ones we were waiting for. –Barack Obama
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you are. –Ray Kroc
“The real terror is waking up one morning and finding out your high school class is running the country. » -Kurt Vonnegut
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” –John F. Kennedy
“Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. » –Robert Frost
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others and you will live again. –Bob Marley
“The mind is everything. What you think you will become. » – Buddha
“The only people for me are the crazy ones, the ones who are crazy about living, crazy about talking, crazy about being saved, wanting everything at once…” –Jack Kerouac
“Defeat is only bitter if you swallow it. » –Joe Clark
“He who loves much, does much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is done well.” » -Vincent Van Gogh
“The only way to find the limits of the possible is to surpass them into the impossible.” –Arthur C. Clarke
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“Be happy, not because everything is going well, but because you can see the good side of everything. ” -Unknown
“Will must be stronger than skill.” –Muhammad Ali
“One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.” -Unknown
“Love doesn’t begin and end the way we seem to think. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love grows. –James Baldwin
“Happiness is an attitude. Either we make ourselves unhappy or we are happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castañeda
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Henry David Thoreau
“When one door to happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.” — Helene Keller
“You have a brain in your head. You have your feet in your shoes. You can head in any direction. — Dr. Seuss
“A sad soul can kill faster than a germ.” –John Steinbeck
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. » –Tupac Shakur
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” –Marcus Aurelius
“Your work is going to occupy a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you consider to be great work. And the only way to do good work is to love what you do. -Steve Jobs
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. –Allen Ginsberg
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you should establish a life that you don’t need to escape from.” -Seth Godin
“Everything besides loving leaves a rust on your soul.” –Langston Hughes
“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” -Lily Tomlin
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day as were given to Helen Keller, Pastor, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein. —H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Someone once told me that “time” is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But rather I believe that time is a companion that accompanies us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again. —Jean-Luc Picard
“It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds most to change. » -Charles Darwin
“Most people miss an opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows that he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer here to know it. –Olivier Sacs
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky
“Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, this time in a smarter way. » – Henry Ford
“Do or don’t.” There is no try. – Yoda
“Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt those who are doing it.” — Chinese proverb
“Personal development is retarded by the establishment of social regulation of education, by the diffusion of true knowledge and by the improvement of mental faculties. » –Nietzsche
