Inspirational Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

1,794 Inspirational Quotes
“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
St. Augustine Quotes
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
Henry Miller Quotes
“It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”
Rob Gilbert Quotes
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease.”
Guy Bellamy Quotes
“Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.”
David Zucker Quotes
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.”
Robert Heinlein Quotes
“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.”
Sheila Graham Quotes
“Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
Hobart Brown Quotes
“I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.”
Igor Stravinsky Quotes
“That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.”
Alexander Haig Quotes
“Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.”
Arnold Glasow Quotes
“Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.”
George Marshall Quotes
“Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.”
Eric Butterworth Quotes
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
William John Bennett Quotes
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
Tom Bodett Quotes
“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.”
Robert Heller Quotes
“Success is in the details.”
A P Erkkila Quotes
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
Daniel H Burnham Quotes
“Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!.”
Edwin C Bliss Quotes
“Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small stuff.”
Robert Elliot Quotes
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean Quotes
“When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.”
Shakti Gawain Quotes
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
Og Mandino Quotes