Inspiring Quotes: Words That Ignite the Soul

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."

- Germany Kent

"Throughout this journey of life we meet many people along the way. Each one has a purpose in our life. No one we meet is ever a coincidence."

- Mimi Novic

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"I failed my way to success."

- Thomas Edison

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

- James Cameron

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The key to success is to develop a winning edge."

- Brian Tracy

"You never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common-sense principles anyone can master."

- Earl Nightingale

"Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant."

- Stephen Covey

"Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success."

- Denis Waitley

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember—the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Uplift people, celebrate people, help people shine. Don't stop to think about how you look in comparison; just celebrate people's shiny moments."

- C. JoyBell C.

"One of my favourite things to do is to show people how much they can shine! I am absolutely in love with watching people step into their full capacity to illuminate."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Take a moment today to acknowledge someone special who has made a difference in your life."

- Germany Kent

"In leadership, you gotta love people first. Love the position second."

- Janna Cachola

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing."

- Vince Lombardi

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"We meet so many people in life, but we connect to the heart of very few!"

- Avijeet Das

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Maybe the happiest people in life don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

- Harmon Okinyo

"Healthy relationships are wholesome and inspiring."

- Germany Kent

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Leading is about people and their wellbeing the first foundation to the organisations wellbeing."

- Janna Cachola

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Never stop loving people. That is the only fight worth fighting."

- Avijeet Das

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslov

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Everyone is the right person for the right person."

- Raheel Farooq

"The worst kind of person is the type that goes around minimizing the achievements of other people."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The power of your journey is hugely related to connection and alignment which are not to be taken lightly."

- Germany Kent

"When you maintain a professional attitude with sincerity and enthusiasm people will take notice and this will cause unbelievable opportunities to come your way."

- Germany Kent

"As a writer and a poet, I like listening rather than talking. Invariably I like to listen to the life stories and instances of many people whom I meet in life."

- Avijeet Das

"At times, fate brings forth individuals on our journey who share an inexplicable connection with us—a connection that transcends our comprehension."

- Donald Pillai

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"So many fail because they don’t get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of only standing still."

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Never let the worldly pressure break you. It is okay to feel it sometimes. It's okay to cry. But just remember that it's compulsory to feel it and build up confidence."

- Kabashe

"It is beautiful to know people before they rise."

- Kingsley Ofosu-Ampong

"Intention directs perception"

- Jaco Snoek

"TO LEAD A HAPPY LIFE, FOLLOW YOURSELF AND TO LEAD A SUCCESSFUL LIFE, FOLLOW PEOPLE."

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"THE RICHEST PERSON IS NOT THE ONE WHO HAS THE MOST, BUT THE ONE WHO GIVES THE MOST"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"My two favorite types of people are artists and scientists because they think and act beyond the obvious."

- Don Rittner

"Give me a hundred useless people, I shall build a robot for hundreds of usefulness"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"When people maintain pin-drop silence at your life, you are almost dead and when people maintain non-stop noise in your life, you are utmost alive"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"People shall know what to attack in you but remember they shall not know what to prevent in them"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"If destruction is your fashion, remember construction is my passion"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Remember, to be negroe does not mean inferiority, it means humanity."

- Francisco Catengue Ngoia

"You come with a cry to know the people and the world, when you leave the world, the people cry for knowing yourself"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."