Famous Inspirational Quotes

Famous inspirational quotes have often been a life-saver for me. Below you will find some of my very favorite quotes from famous people. Quite a few of these quotes have become a guiding force in my life.



A famous inspirational quote by Albert Einstein has had a major impact on the way I view life. It goes like this, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

I can't tell you how many times this famous quote has helped me to look at a difficult situation and turn it into an opportunity to learn and grow rather than allowing it to break me.

I hope these famous inspirational quotes will be a guiding light in your life!

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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

John Quincy Adams


"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein


"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Albert Einstein


"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein


"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do'."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."

Ben Franklin


"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Ben Franklin


"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Napoleon Hill


"You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed."

Napolean Hill


"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napolean Hill

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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Napolean Hill


"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Thomas Jefferson


"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy


"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Robert F. Kennedy

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's sharacter give him power."

Abraham Lincoln


"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."

Carl Sagan


"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Carl Sagan


"What this power is I cannot say; All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

William Shakespeare

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"Wisdom begins in wonder."

Socrates


"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

Mark Twain


"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race."

Booker T. Washington

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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door, that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

Helen Keller


"People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be."

Abraham Lincoln


"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."

Grandma Moses

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"We should not say ‘I am an Athenian’ or ‘I am a Roman’ but ‘I am a citizen of the Universe'"

Marcus Aurelius


"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt


"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

Oprah Winfrey


"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

Pope John XXIII

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"Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles."

Bruce Jenner


"It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you."

Rodney Dangerfield


"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

Martin Luther King, Jr.


"I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be."

Lauren Bacall


"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves."

Galileo


"You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy."

Carol Burnett


"You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

Dr. Seuss


"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi


I hope these famous inspirational quotes help you to see life in new and exciting ways.

Please check back often as this page will be updated whenever I find another inspirational quote!

Many blessings and much success,

Maureen




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