Inspirational Quotes

I find quotes to be thought provoking and inspirational. They can help you look at things in a different way. This can help you to learn and grow. Have a look at some of my favourites. If you have any favourites, please share them with us.

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” ~ Nelson Mandela

"Only a life lived for others is worth living" ~ Einstein

"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable" ~ Christopher Reeve

“People are able because they think they’re able” ~ Virgil

"In the attitude of silence what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" ~ Vicktor Franklin

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind" ~ William James

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others" ~ Pericles

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal” ~ Albert Pine

"You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-range failure" ~ Charles Nobel

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident" ~ Schopenhauer

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them" ~ Einstein

"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time" ~ Elbert Hubbard

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change" ~ Carl Rogers

"He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks within, awakens" ~ Carl Jung

"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat" ~ Lilly Tomlin

"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world" ~ Schopenhauer

"One definition of insanity is to keep doing what you did before, and expect different results"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" ~ Socrates

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"It is impossible for anyone to learn that which he thinks he already knows" ~ Plutarch

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery" ~ James Joyce

"To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight . . . and never stop fighting" ~ E. E. Cummings

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow"

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self" ~ Aristotle

"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

"It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly" ~ Bertrand Russell

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" ~ Babe Ruth

"We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich" ~ Mother Teresa

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves" ~ Carl Jung

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume" ~ Noam Chomsky