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Top 9000+ Inspirational Quotes Series Part 104

By factober Updated on February 19, 2024

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The series will publish lists of motivational quotes and inspirational quotes. The page will guide you through all the articles published under this series. By reading these inspiring quotes you will get a daily dose of inspiration & motivation.

Inspirational Quotes Series Part 104

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. ~ Rashi
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. ~ Mary Renault
Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful. ~ Lea Michele
Just as it is known That an image of one’s face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of “I” exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a faceThe “I” does not at all exist as its own reality. ~ Nāgārjuna
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! ~ William Shakespeare
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time.” It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah’s show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it. ~ Oprah Winfrey
let your haters be your motivators ~ Nikki Carter
All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure. ~ Rob Brezsny
Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST. ~ Lauren Graham
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed the difference. I’ve always dreamt big. ~ Michael J. Fox
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. ~ Joseph Campbell
Why give up? Why give in? ~ Breaking Benjamin
Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t come with money and it doesn’t come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That’s having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That’s having a life of success. That’s what having a life of meaning is. ~ Tim Tebow
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift. ~ Justina Chen
Every villian is a hero in his own mind. ~ Tom Hiddleston
I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out… Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes. ~ Golda Poretsky
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
That’s the trouble with loving a wild thing: You’re always left watching the door. ~ Edith Pattou
The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon ~ Ken Kesey
Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world. ~ Amit Ray
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there ~ Bob Proctor
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~ William Wilberforce
Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son. ~ Santosh Kalwar
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. ~ C.G. Jung
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backward, or sideways. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. ~ George S. Patton Jr.
People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places. ~ Mitch Albom
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~ Nancy Willard
If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. ~ Jim Stovall
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. ~ Eric Hoffer
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ~ T.S. Eliot
Rule your mind or it will rule you. ~ Horace
World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!! ~ Mary Kate
We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries. ~ Brother Andrew
A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute. ~ Tobsha Learner
Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on! ~ Tricia Cunningham
Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony. ~ Paulo Coelho
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Hello!” He said hello and then said, “What are you up to now?” “I’m still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. “I don’t think I’d like that,” he said. “You might if you tried.” “I never have.” She licked her lips. “Rain even tastes good.” “What do you do, go around trying everything once?” he asked. “Sometimes twice. ~ Ray Bradbury
it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance – the one which suddenly directs the symphony. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! ~ Abbie Hoffman
The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish. ~ Rodney A. Winters
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~ David McCullough
I don’t really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven. ~ Bethany Hamilton
We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are. ~ Morrie Camhi
It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them. ~ Martina Boone
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. ~ Eric Micha’el Leventhal
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible. ~ Henry Ford
Pippa’s laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. ‘Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It’s misery. I wish I were someone else. ~ Libba Bray
People who do not love themselves can adore others because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it. ~ Andrew Matthews
Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived. ~ Shane Claiborne
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day. ~ Vera Nazarian
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence, there would be no rhythm. ~ Thomas Merton
I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be. ~ Francesca Lia Block
No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! ~ Tricia Cunningham
Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s. ~ Sandy Nathan
Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves. ~ Jack R. Rose
Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself. ~ Corita Kent
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~ Abbie Hoffman
They will only care when you’re gone. ~ Marilyn Monroe
All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about. ~ Harvey Milk
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. ~ Libba Bray
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride ~ Karen Horney
If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead….they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things. ~ Sharon Swan
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: ‘My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, “The Cookiepants Hypotenuse.”‘ Or else they get unbearably cutesy: ‘My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn’t oo, squeezums? ~ Connie Willis
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve ~ W. Clement Stone
You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place. ~ Kelly Link
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. ~ José Martí
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. ~ Michael Moorcock
stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied. “It’s so seldom I have one. ~ Bill Bryson
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. ~ William Blake
If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. ~ Daniel C. Dennett
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. ~ Stephen King
We are wiser than we know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can t coast uphill. ~ Roger Crawford
Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ~ Walter Isaacson
Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath…It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Never run from the enemy, tackle them ~ Victoria Addino
People always ask me”Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?”To them I always say Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire that burns you up inside? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming With that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Cause if you want it all You’ve got to lay it all out on the line ~ Tim McGraw
I think you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ~ Orson Scott Card
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love. ~ Amit Ray
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them. ~ Toni Morrison
A mind possessed by unmade books. ~ Michael Faudet
A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. ~ Ray A. Davis
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. ~ Rita Mae Brown
I don’t know exactly where ideas come from, but when I’m working well ideas just appear. I’ve heard other people say similar things – so it’s one of the ways I know there’s help and guidance out there. It’s just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard. ~ Jim Henson
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor. ~ John O’Donohue
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. ~ Robert Bloch
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the keyring that opens the door. ~ Paulo Coelho
There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. ~ Cynthia Hand
In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ~ Robert Fanney
Maybe it’s what we don’t say/that saves us. ~ Dorianne Laux
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ~ Toni Morrison
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ~ Brian Tracy
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. ~ Vincent van Gogh