50 Great Inspirational Quotes

I have out together 50 of my favourite great inspirational quotes – hope you enjoy them!

1)  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

2) I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

3). If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

4). A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

5) No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

6) If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

7) Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

8) The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous

9) Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.~Nathaniel Hawthorne

10) Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

11) Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

12) There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth

13) All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

14) Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

15) People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

16) We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

17) It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

18) Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

19) It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

20) Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer

21) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

22)  I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

23)  The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

24)  Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

25) We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

26) 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

27) Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

28)  The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

29) The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

30) The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

31) An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

32)  Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

33)  Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

34) I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

35) You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

36) I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

37)  Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

38) Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

39) If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

40)  There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

41) Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

42) Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

43) Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

44) 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

45) Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

46) When one door of 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 for us. –Helen Keller

47) Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

48) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

49) When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

50) Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Mandy X

Author: Mandy Kloppers

Mandy is a qualified therapist who treats depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, trauma, and many other types of mental health issues. She provides online therapy around the world for those needing support and also provides relationship counselling.