Uplifting Inspirational Quotes for Daily Motivation - Page 13

Get motivated with our top inspirational quotes by famous authors and philosophers. Perfect for daily encouragement. Page 13 provides more inspirational quotes.

Image of Lois Wyse
The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.
- Lois Wyse
Collection: Inspirational
Image of T. H. White
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
- T. H. White
Collection: Inspirational
Image of T. H. White
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
- T. H. White
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Brandon Sanderson
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
- Brandon Sanderson
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Lance Morrow
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
- Lance Morrow
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Lance Morrow
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
- Lance Morrow
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Image of Wendy Mass
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
- Wendy Mass
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John Waters
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
- John Waters
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Louis Pasteur
Chance favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Louis Pasteur
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
- Louis Pasteur
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Alice Walker
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Madam C. J. Walker
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
- Madam C. J. Walker
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Image of Weihui Zhou
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
- Weihui Zhou
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Boris Pasternak
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
- Boris Pasternak
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Alan Moore
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need
- Alan Moore
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Mem Fox
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Helen Mirren
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
- Helen Mirren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Nora Roberts
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Nora Roberts
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
- Nora Roberts
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Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Richard Carlson
Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
- Richard Carlson
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Image of Caroline Rhea
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.
- Caroline Rhea
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Edward Young
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
- Edward Young
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Image of Logan Pearsall Smith
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Image of Mary Catherine Bateson
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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Image of Charles Dudley Warner
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
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Image of Joss Whedon
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
- Joss Whedon
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Hugh Walpole
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
- Hugh Walpole
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Image of Henry Wilson Allen
The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Henry Wilson Allen
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Image of Billy Bob Thornton
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
- Billy Bob Thornton
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Image of Jamie Zawinski
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.
- Jamie Zawinski
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Image of Stephen R. Lawhead
If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.
- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Image of Brenda Ueland
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
- Brenda Ueland
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Brenda Ueland
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
- Brenda Ueland
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Stedman Graham
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
- Stedman Graham
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Stedman Graham
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
- Stedman Graham
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Katrina Kenison
Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Inspirational
Image of W. Clement Stone
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
- W. Clement Stone
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Image of Dennis Quaid
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
- Dennis Quaid
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Image of Susie Orbach
Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.
- Susie Orbach
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Image of Henry Miller
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
- Henry Miller
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Image of Henry Miller
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Carl Rogers
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
- Carl Rogers
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Image of Susanna Kaysen
The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
- Susanna Kaysen
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jeff Bezos
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
- Jeff Bezos
Collection: Inspirational