50 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes
by Teaching staff
What are some of the most inspiring quotes about life? Well, that depends on the type of inspiration you are looking for.
Life quotes encompass the entire human condition, from suffering to possibility, from hope to sacrifice, from love to loss. The best quotes about life are usually those that contain truth, motivation, and insight into some concept that, at that moment in your life, seems poignant, useful, and just the bit of wisdom you need.
50 quotes to inspire
“You should not wish for another life. You shouldn’t want to be someone else. What you must do is this: rejoice forever.” –Wendell Berry
“Live, travel, adventure, bless and do not regret.” –Jack Kerouac
“Each of us is, from the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies you will not find another.” –Carl Sagan
“One purpose of human life, no matter who controls it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” –Kurt Vonnegut
“Personal improvement is delayed by the establishment of a social regulation of education, by the dissemination of true knowledge and by the improvement of mental faculties.” –Nietzsche
“Every act of perception is, to some extent, an act of creation, and every act of memory is, to some extent, an act of imagination.” –Oliver Sacos
“Men must not only know, but they must act.” –WEB Du Bois
“There is no happy life to be found. You make it.” –Camilla Eyring Kimball
‘Act as if what you do makes a difference. That’s how it is”. –William James
“Success is not definitive, failure is not fatal: what counts is the courage to continue.” –Winston Churchill
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“Never bow your head. Always keep it high. Look the world straight in the eyes.” –Helen Keller
“More than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Do not go where the path takes you, go where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Change will not happen if we wait for another person or another time. We are the ones we were waiting for.” –Barack Obama
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. “The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” –Ray Kroc
“The real terror is waking up one morning and discovering that your high school class is running the country.” –Kurt Vonnegut
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” –John F. Kennedy
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” –Robert Frost
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others and you will live again.” –Bob Marley
“The mind is everything. What you believe you become.” -Buddha
“The only ones for me are the crazy ones, those who are crazy to live, crazy to talk, crazy to save themselves, desirous of everything at the same time…” –Jack Kerouac
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” –Joe Clark
“He who loves a lot, does a lot and can achieve a lot, and what is done with love is done well.” -Vincent Van Gogh
“The only way to find the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” –Arthur C. Clarke
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“Be happy not because everything is fine, but because you can see the good side of everything.” -A stranger
“The will must be stronger than the ability.” –Muhammad Ali
“One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.” -A stranger
“Love does not begin or end as we seem to think. Love is a battle. Love is a war. “Love is growing.” –James Baldwin
“Happiness is an attitude. Either we become miserable or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castaneda
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them.” Henry David Thoreau
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but many times we look at the closed door so much that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
“You have a brain in your head. You have your feet in your shoes. You can head yourself, in any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss
“A sad soul can kill faster than a germ.” –John Steinbeck
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while being alive.” –Tupac Shakur
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” –Marcus Aurelius
“Your work is going to occupy a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs
“Follow your inner moonlight; “Do not hide the madness.” –Allen Ginsberg
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation will be, you should create a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
“Everything that exists except love leaves rust on the soul.” –Langston Hughes
“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” —Lily Tomlin
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. “You have exactly the same number of hours per day as Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Someone once told me that ‘time’ is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But rather I believe that time is a companion that accompanies us on the journey and reminds us to value every moment because it will never happen again.” – Jean-Luc Picard
“It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that best responds to change.” —Charles Darwin
“Most people miss the opportunity because they’re dressed in overalls and it looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows that he has lost a leg or an eye; But if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.” –Oliver Sacos
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
“Failure is simply the opportunity to start again, this time more intelligently.” –Henry Ford
“Do it or don’t do it. There is no attempt.” —Yoda
“Those who say it can’t be done should not interrupt those who do it.” —Chinese proverb
“Personal improvement is delayed by the establishment of a social regulation of education, by the dissemination of true knowledge and by the improvement of mental faculties.” –Nietzsche
