Uplifting Inspirational Quotes for Daily Motivation - Page 21

Get motivated with our top inspirational quotes by famous authors and philosophers. Perfect for daily encouragement. Page 21 provides more inspirational quotes.

Image of Gurbaksh Chahal
Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.
- Gurbaksh Chahal
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Phyllis Bottome
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
- Phyllis Bottome
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Phyllis Bottome
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
- Phyllis Bottome
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Abigail Van Buren
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Abigail Van Buren
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Abigail Van Buren
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Abigail Van Buren
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Abigail Van Buren
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jonas Salk
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
- Jonas Salk
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Salman Rushdie
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
- Salman Rushdie
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Claudia Schiffer
I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
- Claudia Schiffer
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Whitney M. Young
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
- Whitney M. Young
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ringo Starr
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
- Ringo Starr
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ted Nugent
There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.
- Ted Nugent
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Tom Stoppard
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
- Tom Stoppard
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Sara Blakely
Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.
- Sara Blakely
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John Ilhan
Don't let anyone say you can't do it.
- John Ilhan
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Flann O'Brien
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
- Flann O'Brien
Collection: Inspirational
Image of David Brooks
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
- David Brooks
Collection: Inspirational
Image of David Brooks
The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.
- David Brooks
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Philip Yancey
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
- Philip Yancey
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Azar Nafisi
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.
- Azar Nafisi
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Anna Quindlen
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Anna Quindlen
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Anna Quindlen
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Bobby Orr
We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
- Bobby Orr
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Steven Wright
If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
- Steven Wright
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Joshua Reynolds
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
- Joshua Reynolds
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Gavin de Becker
We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.
- Gavin de Becker
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jane Siberry
Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.
- Jane Siberry
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Alexander Pope
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John Ford
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
- John Ford
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Bill Toomey
Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.
- Bill Toomey
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Sathya Sai Baba
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
- Sathya Sai Baba
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Tim Tebow
Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and that we're not the ones in control. In the meantime, we need to strive to use our gifts and abilities fully.
- Tim Tebow
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Mel Brooks
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
- Mel Brooks
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Tacitus
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
- Tacitus
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Regina Brett
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
- Regina Brett
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Regina Brett
When in doubt, take the next step.
- Regina Brett
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John Charles Polanyi
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
- John Charles Polanyi
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Michelle Shocked
We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
- Michelle Shocked
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jason Mraz
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Jason Mraz
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Tom Petty
You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Richard Branson
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Inspirational