Inspirational Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

1,794 Inspirational Quotes
“The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
Robert Fritz Quotes
“The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it.”
Cleveland Amory Quotes
“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
Tom Wolfe Quotes
“Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.”
William Feather Quotes
“Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.”
Anna Freud Quotes
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet Quotes
“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”
Bertolt Brecht Quotes
“There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.”
Francis Darwin Quotes
“But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.”
D. H. Lawrence Quotes
“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
Euripides Quotes
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Claude M. Bristol Quotes
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Tom Bodett Quotes
“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”
Martina Navratilova Quotes
“Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.”
Martina Navratilova Quotes
“On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.”
Wendall Phillips Quotes
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
Emilie Cady Quotes
“Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.”
Emilie Cady Quotes
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot Quotes
“People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.”
Grenville Kleiser Quotes
“Make the iron hot by striking it.”
Oliver Cromwell Quotes
“Conscience is a man's compass.”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
“Hope is the parent of faith.”
Cyrus A. Bartol Quotes
“There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.”
William F. Halsey Quotes
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
Stephen A. Brennan Quotes
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes