Inspirational Quotes

Perhaps you will find needed encouragement by these inspirational quotes. Here I've gathered a few favorites you may find uplifting, with motivating words that you may reflect on and share with others. These inspiring quotations reflect the thinking of the best of successful and influential authors, business people, leaders, speakers, and others from all walks of life.

Wayne Dyer

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Anne Frank

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Julia Soul

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

James Broughton

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Jerry Gillies

The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

Ivy Baker Priest

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Joseph Campbell

One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Elaine St. James

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.

Gertrude Stein

Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening.

Lois Wyse

Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one. We have yet to write the book.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Ray Bradbury

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.