Top 15 Inspirational Quotations

Get inspired and lift your spirits with these positive quotations that will surely stimulate your soul and perhaps motivate your mind...

  • "No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings."
    -- William Blake

  • "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
    -- Les Brown

  • "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration."
    -- Thomas Edison

  • "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."
    -- Albert Einstein

  • "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within."
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Act as though what you do makes a difference. It does."
    -- William James

  • "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
    -- Ellen Hubbard

  • "One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and the setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining."
    -- John Muir

  • "It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks."
    -- Theodore Roosevelt

  • "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
    -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you've imagined."
    -- Henry David Thoreau

  • "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"
    -- Jonathan Winters

  • "What does not kill me makes me stronger. "
    -- JohannWolfgang von Goethe

  • "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."--
    Stevie Wonder

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