65 Daily Inspirational Quotes
65 hand-verified daily inspirational quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt, Einstein, Aristotle, Maya Angelou, MLK and more. Bookmark and pull a fresh one whenever you need it.
Daily Picks
“Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway.”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Hope is a waking dream. ”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ”
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut. ”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
“Without courage you can't practice any other virtue with consistency.”
“I am capable of what every other human is capable of.”
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“Champions are made from something deep inside — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ”
“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“Begin; to begin is half the work.”
“What's well begun, is half done.”
“The beginnings of all things are small.”
“The only joy in the world is to begin. ”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ”
“It's never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”
“Hope is that thing inside us that insists something better awaits us.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love. ”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more. ”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
Longer Reflections
“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in.”
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but are felt in the heart.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
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