160 Most Inspirational Quotes to get Motivated

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.

Find a place inside where there’s joy and the joy will burn out the pain.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Health is the greatest gift contentment the greatest wealth faithfulness the best relationship.

Hope is a waking dream.

Nothing is impossible the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I hated every minute of training but I said ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

If you accept the expectations of others especially negative ones then you never will change the outcome.

Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

We can’t help everyone but everyone can help someone.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.

I can’t change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.

In a gentle way you can shake the world.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

You change your life by changing your heart.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

God sleeps in the minerals awakens in plants walks in animals and thinks in man.

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.

The best way out is always through.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Thought is the wind knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.

A place for everything everything in its place.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth follow only beauty and obey only love.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Belief creates the actual fact.

We can change our lives. We can do have and be exactly what we wish.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

You don’t look out there for God something in the sky you look in you.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Look within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open except yourself.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

When deeds speak words are nothing.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe remember you can achieve.

Give light and people will find the way.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

And now this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Great hopes make great men.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams it will transcend them.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands and I am very happy about that!

The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Of all human activities man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought deep freighted with truth and beauty.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

We convince by our presence.

As knowledge increases wonder deepens.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past which can bridge to the future.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Learning how to be still to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Think with your whole body.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I arise full of eagerness and energy knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

It’s inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

The best form of flattery is to be admired imitated or respected. I’ve always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker – an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That’s what I do. I inspire people I inspire the public I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

‘Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.

‘Star Wars’ is fun its exciting its inspirational and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are but the music isn’t.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I’m trying to do creatively. At the same time I do think it’s wonderful when I hear people say that it’s inspirational that I’m an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse and my friends are a diverse group of people.

I do love to eavesdrop. It’s inspirational not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue the way people talk.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang – even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Roosevelt’s declaration that Americans had ‘nothing to fear but fear itself’ was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music and that’s exactly how I approached it – only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

President Obama called for a ‘we’ nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that’s what we need most in our country today.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel that all songs all the music I’ve ever done is a gift from God.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He’s the most inspirational most dedicated most committed and most focused artist I’ve ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998 paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

I’d like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

I hope that at the end of the seven years people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad I look forward to representing Ireland.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that’s all.

In fact I wouldn’t really call this a Gospel album I call it more an inspirational album.

Since we launched the original ‘Pop Idol’ in England I’ve remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on ‘American idol’ for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

I think the end goal hopefully is to take advantage of the attention I’ve gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

I love a lot of the New York bands but Patti Smith stands out. I just read ‘Just Kids’ and it’s an inspirational well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

Every song you’re trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I’m really drawn to are inspirational songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you’re from.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It’s an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I’ve done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I’m onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I love inspirational R&ampB like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance not administration and management.