The Top 192 Most Inspirational (but Lesser Known)

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When its tough and you need to find COURAGE
When you feel LOVE for your partner, friends or family
When things get complex and you need SIMPLICITY
When you feel sad but would like to feel HAPPY!
When you need guidance and WISDOM from others
Spark your CREATIVITY, you are a genius!
When you are alone and have time to reflect and to be SPIRITUAL
When you need to GET INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED!

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When its tough and you need to find COURAGE

I know that you can do the impossible.
Terry Fox
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis
To fly we have to have resistance.
Maya Lin
He who has a why can endure any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Gregory Peck
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and
necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your
good.
Ovid
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It
goes on.
Robert Frost
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
God helps him who strives hard.
Euripides
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.
Babe Ruth
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up
speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Blessed is the man who has suffered; he has found life.
Jesus Christ
Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges,
and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
Julius Charles Hare
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
the other.
Walter Elliot
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
Anne Frank
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When you feel LOVE for yourself, your partner,
friend or family

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Augustine of Hippo
For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart.
Audrey Hepburn
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you
are not.
Andre Gide
One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.
Jorge Luis Borges
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you
do it.
Maya Angelou
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart
suffers.
Deepak Chopra
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they
enkindle and melt the soul.
Teresa of Avila
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and
loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
Miyamoto Musashi
Being motivated by compassion and love, respecting the rights of
others this is the real practice of religion.
Dalai Lama
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality
is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
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When things get complex and you need SIMPLICITY

Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the
unessential.
Bruce Lee
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles Hare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds
with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
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When you feel sad but would like to feel HAPPY!

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without
action.
William James
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun.
Show enthusiasm, always.
Sam Walton
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare
one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is
wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi
To feel that you are helpful, you are useful to society : this is
happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness cannot be accumulated. What is accumulated is always
destructed by time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the
worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
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When you need guidance and WISDOM from others

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Augustine of Hippo
Freedom is the greatest gift. Self-sufficiency is the greatest
freedom.
Unknown
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content
with what you have.
Doris Mortman
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this
world.
Joseph Addison
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
F.Rochefoucauld
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Baba Ram Dass
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through
experience.
Swami Sivananda
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has
mastered himself is mightier still.
William Shakespeare
Paranoia means having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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Spark your CREATIVITY, you are a genius!

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea
at all.
Oscar Wilde
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
Anita Roddick
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time
to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by
success.
Bruce Feirstein
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose
time has come.
Victor Hugo
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When you are alone and have time to reflect and to
be SPIRITUAL

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you
are.
Chinese Proverb
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My only goal is to liberate men, liberate them from their mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count
on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready
to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You do not need to struggle to live. Just being at ease. Utterly
relaxed, silent and you will flower.
Osho
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of
Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
Alan Watts
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts
vanish, then do all things vanish.
Huang Po
Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the
world.
Ramana Maharshi
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When you need to GET INSPIRED AND
MOTIVATED!

You must become your dream.
Paulo Coelho
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how
can you get faith in the ocean.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your
riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
To be beautiful means to be yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
Orison Swett Marden
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Bono
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with
only interests.
John Stuart Mill
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for
the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
Everything you've ever wanted is right outside your comfort zone.
Jennifer Aniston
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
Risk takers are history makers.
Dani Johnson
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God
do you learn.
C. S. Lewis
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being
comfortable.
Swami Vivekananda
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Jeff Bezos
In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was
over themselves.
Harry S Truman
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.
Pythagoras
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The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be
productive, to be useful.
Leo Rosten
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as
he found it.
William Hazlitt
There's no meaning to a flower unless it blooms.
Zen proverb
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself.
Sam Kao
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't
you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how
capable you are.
Bill Gates
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited
enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing
for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr.
The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.
Maya Angelou
What's dangerous is not to evolve.
Jeff Bezos
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
If everybody wished for peace instead of another television set,
then there would be peace.
John Lennon
Without haste, but without rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Laurence J. Peter
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Quentin Tarantino
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great
actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars
that I can step over.
Warren Buffet
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other
people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to
keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
To succeed, you have to believe in something with such a passion
that it becomes a reality.
Anita Roddick
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,but I fear
the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
You cannot avoid pain, but you can chose to overcome it.
Paulo Coelho
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking
they cant lose.
Bill Gates
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason
to believe.
Voltaire
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the
one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing
that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the
world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve
it.
Wayne Dyer
You always make your own luck.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear
control me.
Erica Jong
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose
sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Haruki Murakami
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you
are praying.
Mason Cooley
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Risk takers are history makers.
Dani Johnson
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be
exactly who you are.
Lady Gaga
Paradise is where I am.
Voltaire
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