75 Best Inspirational Quotes of All Time

This post contains the best motivational and inspirational quotes of all time.

I hope you find your favorite quotes and some new ones to inspire whatever path you are on or looking for.

1. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” –George Bernard Shaw

2. “Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.” –Mark Twight

3. “Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” –Bruce Lee

4. “If you’re not getting told ‘no’ enough times a day, you’re probably not doing it right or you’re probably not pushing yourself hard enough.” – Shafqat Islam

5. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” –Apple Inc.

6. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” –Sun Tzu

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8. “His epitaph should read: he never betrayed a friend, and he never showed mercy towards an enemy.” –Liar’s Poker

9. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” –Robert F. Kennedy

10. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.” –Michelangelo

11. “A man is what he thinks of all day long.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” –Oscar Wilde

13. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” –Napoleon Hill

14. “Little minds are subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.” –Washington Irving

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16. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” –Robert Frost

17. “Lord, grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.” –Michelangelo

18. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” –Walden

19. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

20. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” –Albert Einstein

22. “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” –Thomas Carlyle

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24. “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto their leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” –Julius Caesar

25. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt

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27. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot

28. “People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” –Ramona L. Anderson

29. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” –Donald Laird

3o. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” –Mahatma Gandhi

31. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” –Mary Kay Ash

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33. “Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” –Voltaire

34. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” –Marilyn Monroe

35. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” –George Bernard Shaw

36. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” –Leon J. Suenes

37. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” –Agatha Christie

38. “The best portion of a good man’s life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” –William Wordsworth

39. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” –Elbert Hubbard

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41. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill

42. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

43. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” –Paulo Coelho

44. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” –Muhammad Ali

45. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” –Henry Ford

46. “Make each day your masterpiece.” –John Wooden

47. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” –Nicholas Sparks

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

49. “Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.” –Spryte Loriano

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51. “Intolerance of your present creates your future.” –Mike Murdock

52. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” –Vince Lombardi

53. “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” –E.E. Cummings

54. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” –Charles De Gaulle

55. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” –Mark Twain

56. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt

57. “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” –Norman Vincent Peale

58. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” –Dr. Seuss

59. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

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62. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” –Albert Einstein

63. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” –Albert Camus

64. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.” –Henry Ward Beecher

65. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” –Calvin Coolidge

66. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” –Marilyn Vos Savant

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68. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn

69. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” –Margaret Thatcher

70. “You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.” –Zig Ziglar

71. “A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” –John Maxwell

72. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” –Jerry Rice

73. “Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.” –Maxwell Maltz

74. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” –Oscar Wilde

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