351 356 of the Best Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Share
Staying inspired to achieve your goals takes effort. It helps to spend some time reviewing what you want to do with your life and to ponder the thoughts of others. We think we have compiled the best of the best in inspirational quotes here for you to ponder and consider as motivation. We hope you find them inspiring, we hope you achieve everything in life that you want to, and we hope your day, your week, and the months and years ahead rock for you with much success!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
Whatever you do, you need courage.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Study while others are sleeping;
work while others are loafing;
prepare while others are playing;
and dream while others are wishing.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely on
how you think and how you see things around you.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people isn't really about
resources that were available to them when they started out, Instead its their resourcefulness or personal initiative that makes the difference.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit.
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Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.
The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
We become what we think about.
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We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
