We often need inspiration in our lives to get things done and move forward. Here I have collected a list of some of the most inspirational quotes that will help you keep going when life gets tough and urge you to become the greatest version of yourself.
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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~Albert Einstein
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~Jimmy Dean
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~Francis of Assisi
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller
“My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” ~Pablo Picasso
“Dream big and dare to fail.” ~Norman Vaughan
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~Henry S. Haskins
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~Lao Tzu
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~Napoleon Hill
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill
“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.” ~Cher
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~Alan Kay
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” ~Florence Nightingale
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~Albert Einstein
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” ~Henry Ford
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~Dr. Robert Schuller
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ~Christopher Morley
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” ~George Bernard Shaw
“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” ~Cherie Gilderbloom
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~Allen Saunders
“The best way out is always through.” ~Robert Frost
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas Edison
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” ~Swami Sivananda
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” ~William Prescott
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~Milton Berle
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” ~Charles R. Swindoll
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~Wayne Gretzky
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” ~W. Clement Stone
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”~Denis Waitley
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” ~Buddha
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” ~Winston Churchill
“Make each day your masterpiece.” ~John Wooden
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~Truman Capote
“When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.” ~Chris Colfer
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~Alice Walker
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~Mark Twain
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ~Maya Angelou
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~Napoleon Hill
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” ~Helen Keller
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~John Wooden
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~John Lennon
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ~Mark Twain
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” ~Socrates