Top 2320 Inspiration Quotes

Inspiration rarely arrives on schedule, but the right line at the right moment can shift how a whole day feels. This is our largest collection: a wide-ranging set of inspirational quotes about dreaming bigger, starting sooner, and believing the next step is possible.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Jaime Lynne
Jaime Lynne
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It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.
Josh McDowell
Josh McDowell
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
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Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.
Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud
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Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Einstein.
ST Abby
ST Abby
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If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
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That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Dream big and your problems become small.
Vishen Lakhiani
Vishen Lakhiani
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Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
Walter Deitzle Raymond
Walter Deitzle Raymond
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If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it, it'll all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it. If you glow and grow and soar and plunge for it and give all your sense of the cosmos for it. If you will stake your all on it and put your all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity. It neither could nor poverty, tarnish or gout, sickness or pain of tragedy and doom can keep you away from the thing that you want. Dogged and grim you be see and forget it with the help of GOD you will get it.
Unknown
Unknown
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Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Clark Gable
Clark Gable
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From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.
Vadimir Klitschko
Vadimir Klitschko
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie
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It's not what you say, it's what people hear.
Frank Luntz
Frank Luntz
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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
Alex Grey
Alex Grey
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The phoenix must burn to emerge.
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
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Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
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History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
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Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech
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Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman
Judith Lewis Herman
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If you ain't first, you're last!
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
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What cannot be said will be wept.
Sappho
Sappho
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Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe
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Jazz is democracy in music.
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
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When anything can happen, everything matters.
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
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The true beauty of music is that it connects people.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers
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Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
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Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
Charlie Batch
Charlie Batch
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I am who I am and that's who I am.
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
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We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.
River Phoenix
River Phoenix
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When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
Sidney Poiter
Sidney Poiter
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
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Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
Diane Duane
Diane Duane
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Every picture tells a story, doesn't it?
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence
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Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
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Acceptance. Embrace the suck.
Tarryn Fisher
Tarryn Fisher
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You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
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Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.
Elie Tahari
Elie Tahari
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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
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