Inspiration »

Everyone has a bad day every now and then and needs a little inspiration. Here are some of my favorite uplifting quotes I have collected over the years:

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou

“You can never be overdressed or over educated.”
— Oscar Wilde

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”
— Audrey Hepburn

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

-Bill Cosby

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

“Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”
— Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City)

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
— Jim Rohn

“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy

“He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
— japanese wisdom

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr. Seuss

“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.”
— Mark Twain

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
— Mark Twain

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— Aristotle
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
— Anne Frank (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
— Albert Einstein
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
— Malcolm X
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.”
— Henry Ford

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
— Mother Teresa

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
— Audrey Hepburn

Please share!