From the dawn of humans, quotes by famous people are almost always universally loved and repeated often. I honestly have no idea why it’s like that but maybe it’s because good quotes especially by people who’ve reached where they’ve wanted or basically who know their stuff automatically make us feel like we’re tapping into their thought process and work ethics. And who wouldn’t love that right!
A good quote not only tells us something, it also makes us feel good and the idea that we can do anything if we set our mind to it.
So to celebrate the universality of quotes, I decided to compile the best 75 quotes from around the globe that touch me personally and I hope that it can inspire and motivate you as well.
Bookmark this page and read a new quote every morning to start off a great day every time!
Oh, and if you’re up for it, there a few easter eggs in here. Not all the quotes below are from real-life people. 😉 See if you can spot them!
Quotes
1) “It always seems impossible until its done.” ― Nelson Mandela
2) “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
3) “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
4) “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” ― Buddha
5) “I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.” ― Steven Pinker
6) “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― E. E. Cummings
7) “We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.” ― John Lennon
8) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9) “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” ― Albert Einstein
10) “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.” ― John C. Maxwell
11) “There is often a much simpler way of doing things – if you make the effort to look for it.” ― Edward de Bono
12) “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide
13) “It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” ― Seneca
14) “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ― Maya Angelou
15) “It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” — Jimmy Dugan
16) “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ― Woody Allen
17) “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” ― Margaret Atwood
18) “Be kind – for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ― Wendy Mass
19) “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” ― Virginia Woolf
20) “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” — Doctor Who
21) “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ― Stephen Covey
22) “The self is made, not given.” ― Barbara Myerhoff
23) “Do what you can, where you are, with what you’ve got.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
24) “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t. And believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” ― Harvey MacKay
25) “Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” — Jose Luis Borges
26) “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” ― Prescott
27) “You have not lived today until you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you.” ― John Bunyan
28) “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
29) “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ― Babe Ruth
30) “There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” ― Oprah Winfrey
31) “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” ― Peter F Drucker
32) “I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou
33) “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ― Joshua J. Marine
34) “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” ― Charles Kettering
35) “It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” — Rocky Balboa
36) “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” ― Larry Winget
37) “No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation, compassion is something we all need to receive and give.” ― Catherine Pulsifer
38) “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
39) “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” ― Joe Clark
40) “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ― Mark Twain
41) “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy
42) “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ― John Wooden
43) “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” ― Napoleon Hill
44) “A man who flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” — Sador
45) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu
46) “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” ― Kahlil Gibran
47) “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” — Anonymous
48) “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison
49) “Use what talent you possess – the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” ― Henry vanDyke
50) “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt
51) “Speak less than you know; have more than you show.” ― William Shakespeare
52) “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ― Zig Ziglar
53) “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
54) “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
55) “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ― Henry Ford
56) “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein
57) “Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.” ― George Bernard Shaw
58) “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank
59) “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch
60) “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” ― Thomas J. Watson
61) “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Ronald Reagan
62) “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
63) “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ― Carl Bard
64) “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” ― John Maxwell
65) “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
66) “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” ― Thomas Edison
67) “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ― Jack Canfield
68) “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln
69) “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo da Vinci
70) “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ― Helen Keller
71) “If not us, who? If not now, when?” ― John F. Kennedy
72) “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ― Margaret Thatcher
73) “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
74) “May there be a miracle in YOUR life today and may you have the EYES to see it.” ― Veronica Hay
75) “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” ― Johann Wolfgang Won Goethe
And a happy new week! How are you? Sorry I wasn’t able to write a post last week. I had a pretty bad array of medical conditions that time but I’m fine now. At least something like that doesn’t happen too often, which is such a big relief.
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