Best Inspiring Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.”

“In real life, remember that X+y=0 represents the perfect balance between effort, energy, and the fulfillment of success and happiness. Keep pushing towards your goals and stay motivated”

“Success is not a food to be consumed by all, but for those who can pay the price, bear the risk, and dare the unbearable challenges; those who dare to surmount staring obstacles.”

“Greatest motivation is self-motivation.”

“Run wild and free like a waterfall”

“Don't be a one-hit wonder; rather build a legacy.”

“Reconnect with the highest truth and ignite the divine sparks in you.”

“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace”

“People are successful because they think and act like successful people.”

“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”

“Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.”

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”

“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”

“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”

“Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.”

“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”

“Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.”

“There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads, a relationship between the sound of another's voice and the emotions that we feel in our hearts, a relationship between our movements in space all around us and the magnetic pulls we can create between others and ourselves. All of these things (and more) make up the magic of every ordinary day and if we are able to live in this magic, to feel and to dwell in it, we will find ourselves living with magic every day. These are the white spaces in life, the spaces in between the written lines, the cracks in which the sunlight filters into. Some of us swim in the overflowing of the wine glass of life, we stand and blink our eyes in the sunlight reaching unseen places, we know where to find the white spaces, we live in magic.”

“Only if the goal is imperative not to lose, is the goal worth winning.”

“The way our world turns out for good or evil has its roots in our children. Our future society, its people, its spirituality, and peace will depend on the outcome of the future leaders we are currently raising.”

“Until you go out to preach, or to witness, you won't get enough spiritual strength. You can't dwell in Zion and remain stationary”

“Don't fear your destiny, for it is the sum of your past and present combined with your level of confidence and faith.”

“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”

“...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.”

“All are one. Right now. In this moment. In every moment we stop to recognize something of ourselves in each other. Unity isn’t some hoped-for event. It’s a matter of perception.”

“Dum spiro, spero.”

“You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.”

“Endure to the very end.”

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

“What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.”

“Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”

“Down the narrow trail”

“What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.”

“Mendelevium was discovered and named during the Cold War era so the scientists who discovered it had to convince the U.S. government to allow their proposal to name the element for Dmitri Mendeleev, who was a Russian scientist. Since he was known as the father of the periodic table, the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry approved the use of his name for element 101.”

“Did you know there are three palaces at Versailles? How many does one family need when thousands have no homes? I don’t approve of what those women did, but I understand why they did it. Perhaps one day, I’ll have to do something like it—to feed my son.”

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”

“I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.”

“Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?”

“It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.”

“Life is full of twists, turns, hiccups and brick walls. A delay in pursuing your purpose allows you to regroup, recharge and launch again. Treat it as a pause and not an end to capturing your dreams.”

“Do not get discouraged. Don’t shrug off your dreams because of the setbacks. Aspirations are not like perspiration, they will not evaporate unless you allow it.”

“Paul wasn’t too sure about a half nibbled peanut, quite some parting gift, he thought.”

“Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a gentle breeze, calming the skies destine of rendering light.”

“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”

“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”

“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.”

“Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”

“A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”

“Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.”

“You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.”

“Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.”

“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.”

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”

“Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.”

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”

“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

“We may not get to choose how we die, but we”

“Something dark and unseen”

“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.”

“They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?”

“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”

“Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”

“How to win in life:”

“Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others; find the positive attributes that they possess.”

“Never let fear hold you captive.”

“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination.”

“Great Leaders Create More Leaders”

“Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively:”

“Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your Dreams”

“7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important”

“You Are the Master of Your Attitude”

“Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait:”

“Never stop dreaming,”

“Do Not Lie to Yourself”

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.”

“Don't Just”

“(Poetry) helped me to find a silver lining in even the darkest emotions, experiences, observations and topics; find positivity even in the face of extreme negativity; find strength when I was being forced to feel weak; and find hope that my tomorrows would be brighter.”

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty”

“Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.”

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”

“Happiness is heaven in human heart.”

“Seekers of wisdom, seekers of life.”

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”

“Act as if it was, and it will be.”

“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”

“First knowledge is the knowledge of God.”

“Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.”

“We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.”

“I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.”