The Top 192 Most Inspirational (but Lesser Known)

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When it’s tough and you need to find COURAGE

When you feel LOVE for your partner, friends or family

When things get complex and you need SIMPLICITY

When you feel sad but would like to feel HAPPY!

When you need guidance and WISDOM from others

Spark your CREATIVITY, you are a genius!

When you are alone and have time to reflect and to be SPIRITUAL

When you need to GET INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED!

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When it’s tough and you need to find COURAGE

I know that you can do the impossible.

Terry Fox

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

C. S. Lewis

To fly we have to have resistance.

Maya Lin

He who has a why can endure any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Gregory Peck

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and

necessary to resolve it.

Rene Descartes

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your

good.

Ovid

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It

goes on.

Robert Frost

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm S. Forbes

God helps him who strives hard.

Euripides

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Thomas Carlyle

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Babe Ruth

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up

speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Blessed is the man who has suffered; he has found life.

Jesus Christ

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges,

and I believed in myself.

Muhammad Ali

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Julius Charles Hare

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after

the other.

Walter Elliot

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao Tzu

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

Anne Frank

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When you feel LOVE for yourself, your partner,

friend or family

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Augustine of Hippo

For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart.

Audrey Hepburn

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Ho Chi Minh

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you

are not.

Andre Gide

One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.

Jorge Luis Borges

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you

do it.

Maya Angelou

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart

suffers.

Deepak Chopra

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they

enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Avila

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and

loved much.

Elbert Hubbard

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Miyamoto Musashi

Being motivated by compassion and love, respecting the rights of

others – this is the real practice of religion.

Dalai Lama

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality

is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Benjamin Franklin

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When things get complex and you need SIMPLICITY

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the

unessential.

Bruce Lee

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

W. Somerset Maugham

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Julius Charles Hare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds

with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

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When you feel sad but would like to feel HAPPY!

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without

action.

William James

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun.

Show enthusiasm, always.

Sam Walton

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare

one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is

wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Ramana Maharshi

To feel that you are helpful, you are useful to society : this is

happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness cannot be accumulated. What is accumulated is always

destructed by time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the

worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

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When you need guidance and WISDOM from others

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Augustine of Hippo

Freedom is the greatest gift. Self-sufficiency is the greatest

freedom.

Unknown

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content

with what you have.

Doris Mortman

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this

world.

Joseph Addison

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

F.Rochefoucauld

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Baba Ram Dass

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through

experience.

Swami Sivananda

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has

mastered himself is mightier still.

William Shakespeare

Paranoia means having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Thomas Paine

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

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Spark your CREATIVITY, you are a genius!

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea

at all.

Oscar Wilde

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

Anita Roddick

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time

to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by

success.

Bruce Feirstein

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative

effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Jim Rohn

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose

time has come.

Victor Hugo

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When you are alone and have time to reflect and to

be SPIRITUAL

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you

are.

Chinese Proverb

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

My only goal is to liberate men, liberate them from their mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count

on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready

to bubble up, if you just dig.

Marcus Aurelius

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You do not need to struggle to live. Just being at ease. Utterly

relaxed, silent and you will flower.

Osho

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of

Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Alan Watts

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts

vanish, then do all things vanish.

Huang Po

Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the

world.

Ramana Maharshi

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When you need to GET INSPIRED AND

MOTIVATED!

You must become your dream.

Paulo Coelho

No pressure, no diamonds.

Thomas Carlyle

Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how

can you get faith in the ocean.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your

riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

To be beautiful means to be yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Orison Swett Marden

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will

delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Ralph Marston

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Bono

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with

only interests.

John Stuart Mill

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for

the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

Everything you've ever wanted is right outside your comfort zone.

Jennifer Aniston

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Moshe Dayan

Risk takers are history makers.

Dani Johnson

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God

do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being

comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Rabindranath Tagore

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?

Jeff Bezos

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was

over themselves.

Harry S Truman

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.

Pythagoras

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The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be

productive, to be useful.

Leo Rosten

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as

he found it.

William Hazlitt

There's no meaning to a flower unless it blooms.

Zen proverb

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself.

Sam Kao

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't

you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how

capable you are.

Bill Gates

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited

enthusiasm.

Charles Schwab

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

William Shakespeare

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing

for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

The impossible is often the untried.

Jim Goodwin

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the

moments that take our breath away.

Maya Angelou

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Dale Carnegie

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

If everybody wished for peace instead of another television set,

then there would be peace.

John Lennon

Without haste, but without rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Laurence J. Peter

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

Quentin Tarantino

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great

actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars

that I can step over.

Warren Buffet

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other

people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Winters

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to

keep moving.

Jerry Seinfeld

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

To succeed, you have to believe in something with such a passion

that it becomes a reality.

Anita Roddick

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,but I fear

the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

You cannot avoid pain, but you can chose to overcome it.

Paulo Coelho

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking

they can’t lose.

Bill Gates

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason

to believe.

Voltaire

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the

one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Tennessee Williams

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing

that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the

world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve

it.

Wayne Dyer

You always make your own luck.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear

control me.

Erica Jong

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose

sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you

are praying.

Mason Cooley

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing

down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Risk takers are history makers.

Dani Johnson

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be

exactly who you are.

Lady Gaga

Paradise is where I am.

Voltaire

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