Uplifting Inspirational Quotes for Daily Motivation - Page 256

Get motivated with our top inspirational quotes by famous authors and philosophers. Perfect for daily encouragement. Page 256 provides more inspirational quotes.

Image of Rollo May
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
- Rollo May
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Rollo May
We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Martin Luther
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Audre Lorde
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
- Audre Lorde
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Angela Merkel
It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.
- Angela Merkel
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Dave Barry
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Max Lucado
Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?
- Max Lucado
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Bill Maher
Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Demi Lovato
And if there's anyone out here tonight that doesn't feel beautiful enough, or doesn't feel worthy enought... You're wrong. Because you guys are all so incredible. And if you're dealing with any of the issues that I've dealt with, don't be afraid to speak up, because someone will be there for you. And if you think, you're alone, put on my music, because I'm going to be there for you
- Demi Lovato
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Neal A. Maxwell
Don't fear, just live right.
- Neal A. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Horace Mann
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
- Horace Mann
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Nelson Mandela
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Nelson Mandela
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Phil McGraw
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.
- Phil McGraw
Collection: Inspirational
Image of H. L. Mencken
A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Dave Matthews
What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?
- Dave Matthews
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Harvey Mackay
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Terence McKenna
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Inspirational
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Herman Melville
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Harvey Mackay
No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Og Mandino
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Og Mandino
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Og Mandino
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Max Lucado
We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words
- Max Lucado
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Drew Barrymore
I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
- Drew Barrymore
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Terence McKenna
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of John C. Maxwell
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Peter McWilliams
We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Inspirational
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Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Inspirational
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For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Inspirational
Image of George MacDonald
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John Adams
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
- John Adams
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Eva Mendes
The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that.
- Eva Mendes
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
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It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
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A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
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The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John C. Maxwell
Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Willie Mays
"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."
- Willie Mays
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Terence McKenna
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Judith Martin
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Judith Martin
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Demi Lovato
Sometimes I'm not always doing amazing but it's okay... because everyone struggles and it's okay to be flawed because that's what makes me... Me.
- Demi Lovato
Collection: Inspirational