61 Quotes to Inspire You – Every Day
With all that’s going on in our world, we need a few good quotes to inspire us to be better versions of ourselves.
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John F. Kennedy
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” Albert Einstein
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” Buddha
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” Soren Kierkegaard
“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.” Gerald Jampolsky
“Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.” Hiawatha
“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.” Gerald Jampolsky
“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.” Temple Grandin
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.” Gail Sheehy
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” Jimi Hendrix
“When you are through changing, you are through.” Bruce Barton
“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” Phil Crosby
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” George S. Patton
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” Jim Rohn
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” Mark Twain
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” Zig Ziglar
“The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?” Brendan Behan
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” Cecil B. DeMille
“As an outsider; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.” Henry Cavill
“The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.” Robert Kiyosaki
“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.” Charles J. Givens
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.” Thornton Wilder
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” Thomas A. Edison
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” John Muir
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” Max de Pree
“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.” J. Michael Straczynski
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John F. Kennedy
“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.” Lactantius
“Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?” Martin Farquhar Tupper
“Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.” Liz Carpenter
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.” Elizabeth Hardwick
“To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.” William Samuel Johnson
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” William James
“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.” Elbert Hubbard
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” Jack London
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” Jessica Savitch
“The more things you do, the more you can do.” Lucille Ball
“Wherever you are – be all there.” Jim Elliot
“To begin, begin.” William Wordsworth
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” Peter Marshall
“Leap, and the net will appear.” John Burroughs
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart
“I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.” Beverly Sills
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” John Burroughs
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” Don Marquis
“I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.” Simon Sinek
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