Inspiring Tattoo Quotes: A Collection of Words to Ink Your Soul

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

- Mary Oliver

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

- Michael Cunningham

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

- Rumi

"Love is the absence of judgment."

- Dalai Lama

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

- Steve Maraboli

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

- William Ernest Henley

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"When love is not madness it is not love."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"I have a tattoo on my wrist... and it says, 'She believed she could, so she did.'"

- Carly Pearce

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry."

- Jack Kerouac

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

"Still I rise"

- Maya Angelou

"I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy's Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me."

- Ananya Birla

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Those who are always getting burned and hammered upon in life, are the strongest ...for the mightiest strength can only come from being forged"

- Bett G8S

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

- Rumi

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

- Charles Bukowski

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

- George Orwell

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"Pain shapes a woman into a warrior."

- R.H.Sin

"May you live every day of your life."

- Jonathan Swift

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

- May Sarton

"What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Jung

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful."

- Pamela Anderson

"I will not be broken, I do not need saving. I am strong"

- carlos

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything."

- Gordon A. Eadie

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I actually have a tattoo on the left side of my chest that says 'Blessed.' It represents how blessed I've been in my life and how thankful I am for all that I have."

- Michael Chandler

"Give every Day the Chance to be the Best of your Life- life is the moment now"

- Sortimo

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

- Frank Zappa

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

- Bob Marley

"Resist much, obey little."

- Walt Whitman

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

- Voltaire

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

- Terry Pratchett

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

- Albert Camus

"Strength; Its what comes from the madness we survive."

- Brad

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

- Haruki Murakami

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell

"Never laugh at live dragons."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it."

- Lloyd Alexander

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"People haven’t always been there for me but music always has."

- Taylor Swift

"God has no religion."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next."

- Chris Evans

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

- Philip K. Dick

"I'm a big fan of zombies, and I have a zombie tattoo on my leg."

- Tyler Posey

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

- Charles Bukowski

"My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies."

- Ryan Reynolds

"Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo."

- Margaret Cho

"I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face."

- Seann William Scott

"I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist."

- Ronnie Dunn

"I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed."

- Carly Chaikin

"I have a Superman tattoo."

- Brian Quinn

"I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes."

- Caity Lotz

"I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team."

- Gary Speed

"I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling."

- Andy Samberg

"Still I rise."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"The only limit is the one you set yourself"

"The only way out is through"

"The only limit is the one you set yourself."

"Be your own sun"

"The magic is within you"

"You are the greatest project you will ever work on"

"Do it anyway"

"You are enough"

"Believe in yourself."

"Let your faith be bigger than your fear."

"Create your own sunshine"

"Strength through struggle."

"Chase your dreams."

"You can"

"Trust your vibes, energy never lies"

"Keep choosing joy"

"You are stronger than your trials"

"Dream until your dreams come true"

"I’m changing"

"Believe in yourself"

"Let your faith be bigger than your fear"

"Strength through struggle"

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

"Breathe"

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

"Keep going"

"There is sun after rain, love after pain"

"No rain, no flowers"

"Look for the magic in everything"

"everything I'm not made me everything I am"

"Let your body be your canvas to tell a story"

"Make it count"

"The best is yet to come."

"Embrace the journey, not the destination."

"The only constant is change"

"Embrace the journey, not the destination"

"live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain"

"Seek discomfort"

"Perfectly imperfect"

"After every storm there is a rainbow"

"I won't abandon hope hope won't abandon me"

"Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted"

"Life handled me with bad cards I play with what i've got"

"If it's worth the risk, take the fall. And if it's what you want, it's worth it all."

"Even the best fall down sometimes."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be"

"Stay strong, make them wonder how you're still smiling."

"Your past is not your enemy"

"Stay wild / Keep me wild"

"Timing — a reminder to be patient"

"Everything is temporary"

"Just keep me where the light is"

"This too shall pass"

"Don't judge my journey if you haven't lived my past"

"Here I am, the rabbit hearted boy frozen in the lights. I must become the Lion hearted man ready for the fight."

"give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall"

"The Strongest Stand Alone"

"I got my first tattoo when I was 19. The one on my shoulder is an eagle. I'd go to the beach, and I'd take off my shirt, and I'd almost feel self-conscious because nobody out there had tattoos except my buddies, the guys who rode motorcycles. American-made bikes, mainly."

"Peace begins with a Smile"

"I can do all things through which"

"I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos."

"A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands."