365 Inspirational Quotes For Daily Motivation

1. “Take up an idea, devote yourself, struggle in patience, and the sun will rise.” ~
Swami Vivekananda
2. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
3. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it
outside when it is inside.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
4. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
~ Dalai Lama
5. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun
6. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” ~ Booker T. Washington
7. “If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.” ~ Stephen
Hawking.
8. “You should sit in nature for 20 minutes a day… unless you’re busy, then you
should sit for an hour.” ~ Zen saying
9. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.
Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
10.“Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a
friendly wink, and a warm hug. It’s these simple acts that matter most, because
the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of
recognition.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
11. “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will
live it’s whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Einstein
12.“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” ~ Winston
Churchill
13.“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” ~ Oscar
Wilde

14.“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people
up.“ ~ John Holmes
15.“Happiness and unhappiness are states of mind and therefore their real causes
cannot be found outside of the mind. Happiness is when I create the right
thought.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
16.“If anything turns you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it like
it’s poison.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
17.“Truly successful people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be
superior to their former selves. Don’t race against others. Race against yourself.”
~ Robin Sharma
18.“JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.”
~ Paulo Coelho
19.”When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the
situation or accept it, all else is madness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
20.“Talk to yourself once a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent
person in this world.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
21.”If everything is important, then nothing is.” ~ Patrick Lencioni
22.“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Rumi
23.“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.” ~ Michael Jordan
24.”If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don’t like them, you have
to love them enough to tell them the truth. ~ Patrick Lencioni
25.”Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity
cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama
26.“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~ Lao Tzu
27.”Detachment is not that you own nothing, but that nothing should own you.” ~
Bhagwad Gita

28.”It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your
happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” ~ Mandy Hale.
29.“Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once.
Breather. You’re strong. You got it. Take it day by day.” ~ The mastery of self by
Don Miguel Ruiz
30.”Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a
relationship, a business or a hobby.” ~ Neil Strauss
31.“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting
things to be permanent when they are not.” ~ Nhat Hanh
32.”I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes
from within. It is there all the time.” ~ Anna Freud
33.“Sometimes it’s not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.” ~
Richard Paul Evans
34.”I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.” ~ Louise
Hay
35.“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat” ~ Joel Osteen
36.”You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances,
the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you
have charge of.” ~ Jim Rohn
37.”Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.” ~ Buddha
38.”Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a
good future, no matter how much effort you make.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
39.”He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
40.”Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R.
Swindoll
41.“Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale

42.”If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of
persistence.” ~ Richard DeVos
43.”Success is a journey not a destination.” ~ Ben Sweetland
44.”Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference
in the world.” ~ Jarod Kintz
45.”What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become
by achieving your goals.” ~ Zig Ziglar
46.”It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
47.“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~ Maya
Angelou
48.”Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” ~ W. Clement Stone
49.”If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~ Napoleon Hill
50.“Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” ~ Mallika Tripathi
51.“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ~ Estée Lauder
52.”If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
53.“Scarcity of self~value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection,
attention, or influence.” ~ Gary Zukav
54.”Love yourself first and everything else falls into place.” ~ Lucille Ball
55.“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ~ Farrah
Gray
56.“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings

57.“The great secret of true success, of true happiness is this: the man or woman
who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person is the most successful.” ~
Swami Vivekananda
58.”By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there
before.” ~ Edwin Elliot
59.”We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount
of work is the same.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
60.“I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy
the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.” ~ Kerry Washington
61.“If we give our children sound self~love, they will be able to deal with whatever
life puts before them.” ~ Bell Hooks
62.”Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” ~
Leo Buscaglia
63.”Be a first~rate version of yourself, instead of a second~rate version of
somebody else.” ~ Judy Garland
64.“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
65.”Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it
every day.” ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
66.“Anger is a potent spice. A pinch wakes you up, too much dulls your senses.” ~
The Queens Gambit
67.”If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” ~ Carlos Santana
68.”Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can
be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
69.”Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” ~ Audrey Hepburn
70.”If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney

71.”To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” ~ Oscar Wilde
72.”Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
73.“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need
you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go
home and be there for all these things.” ~ Nhat Hanh
74.”Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.” ~ J.M. Barrie
75. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I
realized I was somebody.” ~ Lily Tomlin
76.“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~
Leo Tolstoy
77.”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George
Bernard Shaw
78.”Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly
know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of
itself.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
79.”You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S.
Lewis
80.“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 been opened for us.” ~
Helen Keller
81.“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” ~ William James
82.”Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” ~ Mario Fernández
83.“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” ~ F.
Scott Fitzgerald

84.“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of
luck.” ~ Dalai Lama
85.”You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
86.”The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
87.”You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ~
Rabindranath Tagore
88.“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end
of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
89.”Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ~ Suzy Kassem
90.”When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya
Angelou
91.”The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do
it.” ~ J.M. Barrie
92.”You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go,
and see what happens.” ~ Mandy Hale
93.“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
94.“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Winston S. Churchill
95.“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the
most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” ~ Walter Anderson
96.”Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.” ~ Dodinsky
97.“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of
love.” ~ Mother Teresa

98.”It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
99.“When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach
people in ways that we never even expected.” ~ Laverne Cox
100. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~
Mark Twain
101. “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones
102. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate: Only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
103. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us
becomes better too.” ~ Paulo Coelho
104. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
105. “You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado
of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being
a warm, kind-hearted human being.” ~ The mastery of self
106. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” ~ Janis Joplin
107. “Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others
think.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
108. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and
make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” ~
Orison Swett Marden
109. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be
hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ~
William W. Purkey
110. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~
Mahatma Gandhi

111. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
112. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert
Einstein
113. “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” ~ Maggie Kuhn
114. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who
you are.” ~ Stephanie Lahart
115. “Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that
remains.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
116. “Self-confidence is very important. It’s not a pill or herb. There is no tablet that
can be consumed for instant confidence. We have to build it every day.” ~
Narendra Modi
117. “Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may.
Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This
is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
118. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~
Eleanor Roosevelt
119. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that
what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ~ Epicurus
120. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven.” ~ John Milton
121. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a
little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at
least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~ Gautama Buddha
122. “If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with
eagles, you’re going to fly.” ~ Steve Maraboli,
123. “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.” ~ Patrick
Ness

124. “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be
altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes
does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to
change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our
feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the
courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we
have the courage to dissect the elements.” ~ Anais Nin
125. “When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find
it in our lives.” ~ Louise Hay
126. “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
127. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It
does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light.
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.” ~ Ramana
Maharshi
128. “As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in
your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no
longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
129. “Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will
then find it everywhere.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
130. “To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the
present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.” ~ Nhat Hanh
131. “Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
132. “When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up
in your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
133. “How someone treats you is a reflection of what is going on inside of them.” ~
Seven secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships by Don Miguel Ruiz
134. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ~
Walt Disney Company

135. “No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than
this: one step, one breath, one moment… Now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
136. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” ~
Eckhart Tolle
137. “Remember, most of your stress comes from the way you respond, not the
way life is. Adjust your attitude. Change how you see things. Look for the good in
all situations. Take the lesson and find new opportunities to grow. Let all the extra
stress, worrying, and overthinking go.” ~ The mastery of self
138. “When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama
in your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
139. “Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.” ~ Thomas Edison
140. “Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his
footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world
pursues.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
141. “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care” ~
President Theodore Roosevelt
142. “Winners Never Quit & Quitters Never Win” ~ Vince Lombardi
143. “Awake Arise and Stop Not till the Goal you reached” ~ Swami Vivekananda
144. “Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path” —
Paulo Coelho
145. “If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others,
and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have
the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.” ~
Dalai Lama
146. “You don’t need a new day to start over, you only need new mind set” ~
Unknown

147. ‘We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has
gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~ Maya Angelou
148. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts
about it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
149. “Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress, or to practice peace.” ~
Unknown
150. “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the
trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” ~ Max
Ehrmann
151. “From anger comes delusion; from delusion, the failure of memory; from the
failure of memory, the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination
the man perishes.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
152. “What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in
others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier
because of you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
153. “All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would
deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
154. “Paropakaram Artham Idam Shareeram ~ The body has been given to us in
order to benefit others.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
155. “Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intentions. Give without any
reason. And most of all, care for people without any expectation.” ~ Unknown
156. “Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, and you will
never be disappointed” ~ Unknown
157. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise” ~ Benjamin
Franklin

158. “Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus
on the good ones succeed in life.” ~ Narendra Modi
159. “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman
in Africa would be a millionaire.” ~ George Monbiot
160. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it
ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about
possession. Love is about appreciation.” ~ Osho
161. “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays
off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t
love something, then don’t do it.” ~ Ray Bradbury
162. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~ Sam Levenson
163. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ~
Dalai Lama
164. “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.” ~
Nhat Hanh
165. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall.” ~ Nelson Mandela
166. “Because you are alive, everything is possible.” ~ Nhat Hanh
167. “To move forward you have to come out of your comfort zone. Don’t challenge
others. If you want results then challenge yourself.” ~ Unknown
168. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ~ Henry
Ford
169. “My body and all its organs were created by the infinite intelligence in my
subconscious mind. It knows how to heal me. Its wisdom created all my organs,
tissues, bones, and muscles. This infinite healing presence within me is now
transforming every atom of my being, making me whole and perfect. I give
thanks for the healing I know is taking place now. Wonderful are the works of the
creative intelligence within me! I am now perfectly healthy.” ~ By John Assaraf

170. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” ~ Wayne Gretzky
171. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ~
Stephen Covey
172. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always
reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
173. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win” ~ Kobe
Bryant
174. “Hard work puts you where good luck can find you” ~ Unknown
175. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~ Plutarch
176. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become
actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they
become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” ~ Lao Tzu
177. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ~ Rick
Warren
178. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then
crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther
king jr.
179. “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached” ~ Swami Vivekananda
180. “Dreams are not those which come while we are sleeping, but dreams are
those when u don’t sleep before fulfilling them.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
181. “Earth can satisfy man’s needs but not his greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
182. “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos
– the trees, the clouds, everything.” ~ Nhat Hanh
183. “The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work
you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical
appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief

systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective
identifications. None of these is you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
184. “Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous,
fulfilling life. Today is the day to begin to release all your limitations. Today is the
day for you to learn the secrets of life. You can change your life for the better.
You already have the tools within you to do so. These tools are your thoughts
and your beliefs.” ~ Louise Hay
185. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”
~Søren Kierkegaard
186. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” ~ Mahatma
Gandhi
187. “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities.
Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive,
effective, unstoppable determination.” ~ Ralph Marston
188. “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” ~ Thomas Edison
189. “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
190. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein
191. “Failures should never become a hindrance in the learning process. Instead,
we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives.” ~
Narendra Modi
192. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler
Yeats
193. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many
alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” ~ Aristotle
194. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world.” ~ Nelson Mandela

195. “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the
third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” ~ Solomon Ibn
Gabriol
196. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
habit.” ~ Aristotle
197. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade,
plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” ~ Chinese Proverb
198. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” ~ Erica Jong
199. “Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions
who don’t know themselves.” ~ Osho
200. “Keep your face toward the sunlight, and the shadows will always be behind
you.” ~ Unknown
201. “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.” ~
Brian Tracy
202. “In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the
cosmos.” ~ Deepak Chopra
203. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.” ~ Lou Holtz
204. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement.” ~ Henry Ford
205. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
206. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were
the big things.” ~ Robert Breault
207. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~ Reinhold
Niebuhr

208. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside
you that is greater than any obstacle.” ~ Christian D. Larson
209. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
210. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
211. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~
Confucius
212. “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor
to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely.” ~ Gautama
Buddha
213. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela
214. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds
discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
215. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and
starting on the first one.” ~ Mark Twain
216. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in
the soul.” ~ Democritus
217. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve
Jobs
218. “I want to sing like the bird’s sing, not worrying about who hears or what they
think.” ~ Rumi
219. “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of
everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming
who you are.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

220. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created
it.” ~ Albert Einstein
221. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to
change ourselves.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl
222. “Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” ~ Charles Dickens
223. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in
having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
224. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” ~ Mark Twain
225. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” ~
Rumi
226. “Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are
like the soil in which you plant these seeds.” ~ Louise Hay
227. “The less you respond to rude, critical argumentative people, the more
peaceful your life will become.” ~ Mandy Hale
228. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit.” ~ Harry S. Truman
229. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get
discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your
faith in yourself.” ~ Lucille Ball
230. “You know what? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things
happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason” ~ Richard Bandler
231. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
232. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

233. “When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and
concentrate more on the preservation of the future.” ~ Dian Fossey
234. “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with
open eyes, to make them possible.” ~ T. E. Lawrence
235. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be
to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T. S. Eliot
236. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to
endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~ Ben Okri
237. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a
person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the
wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” ~ Martin Luther King,
Jr.
238. “It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ~
J. K. Rowling
239. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~ Helen
Keller
240. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~
Albert Einstein
241. “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the
shortest way home.” ~ James Joyce
242. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely
a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.” ~ James C. Collins
243. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into
action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” ~ Zig Ziglar
244. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and
more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can

turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody
Beattie
245. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we
need inside ourselves already.” ~ J. K. Rowling
246. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s
greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
247. “A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without
attachment, only for self-purification.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
248. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow
strong by conflict.” ~ William Ellery Channing
249. “Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday
is gone and tomorrow may never come.” ~ Luke the Evangelist
250. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” ~ William
James
251. “Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns
alter.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
252. “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we
think of it; the tree is the real thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
253. “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the
unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping
when everything seems hopeless.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
254. “When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination
will pull you through.” ~ Drake
255. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford
256. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton

257. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~ C. S.
Lewis
258. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak
sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul
a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” ~ James Allen
259. “Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we
should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or
blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the
person they’re meant to be.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
260. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by
others. You need to accept yourself.” ~ Nhat Hanh
261. “Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results,
because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.” ~
Bhagavad Gita
262. “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where
we are but does not leave us where it found us.” ~ Anne Lamott
263. “I am as successful as I make up my mind to be” ~ Louise Hay
264. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do
not dare that things are difficult” ~ Seneca the Younger
265. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ~ Tony
Robbins
266. “Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your
mind.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
267. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and
growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” ~ Andy Rooney
268. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These
three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Laozi

269. “If you aren’t making any mistakes, you aren’t innovating. If you’re making the
same mistakes, you aren’t learning.” ~ Rick Warren
270. “Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same
mistake twice.” ~ Stephanie Perkins
271. “One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.”
~ Harvey Mackay
272. “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” ~ Marcus
Tullius Cicero
273. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I
acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
274. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results.” ~ Albert Einstein
275. “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” ~
Winston Churchill
276. “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” — Seneca
277. “Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.” ~
Ralph Waldo Trine
278. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age, which
means never losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Aldous Huxley
279. “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make
them.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
280. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~ Martin
Luther King Jr.

281. “Your diet is not only what you eat. It is what you watch, what you listen to,
what you read, the people you hang around… be mindful of the things you put in
your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.” ~ Unknown
282. “One of the greatest awakenings comes when you realize that not everybody
changes. Some people never change. And that’s their journey. It’s not yours to try
to fix them”. ~ Unknown
283. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and
gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
284. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that
is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
285. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale
Carnegie
286. “To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely
unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots
of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to
death.” ~ Taylor Swift
287. “We make a living by what we get, But we make a life by what we give.” ~
Winston Churchill
288. “Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does.” ~
Unknown
289. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ~ Dale Carnegie
290. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.” ~
Wayne Dyer
291. “If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you
would be happy with more.” ~ Unknown

292. “I trained for 4 years to run 9 seconds… and people give up when they don’t
see results in 2 months.” — Usain Bolt
293. “The finish line is for the ego. The journey is for the soul.” ~ Unknown
294. “If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you
continuously compete with yourself, you become better.” ~ Unknown
295. “Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things
personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace.” ~ Unknown
296. “There is no “right time”, there is just time & what you choose to do with it.” ~
Unknown
297. “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to
help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ~ Thomas Sowell
298. “If someone treats you bad, just remember that there is something wrong with
them, not you. Normal people don’t go around destroying other people.” ~
Unknown
299. “Peace begins from within, if you are not peaceful inside, the world you see
will be chaotic.” ~ Unknown
300. “Wisdom is not cheap. It costs ego. Hatred. Desire. Solitude. And some really
hard life-lessons.” ~ Unknown
301. “You can’t give your life more time, so give the time you have left more life.” ~
Kate Spencer
302. “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the
fire.” ~ Rumi
303. “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” ~
Albert Einstein
304. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what
you do consistently.” ~ Marie Foleo

305. “So many people from your past know a version of you that no longer exists
anymore. Growth is beautiful.” ~ Unknown
306. “There is no need to do what others are doing. You must do what truly matters
to you as a life.” ~ Unknown
307. “Understand that you own nothing, everything that surrounds you is
temporary, only the love in your heart will last forever.” ~ Unknown
308. “If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return, you’re doing
business not kindness.” ~ Unknown
309. “The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think.” ~
David Icke
310. “I used to feel like my side of the story needed to be told to keep the facts
right. Now I don’t care what you choose to believe.” ~ Unknown
311. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things
you can’t change.” ~ Tony Gaskins
312. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power
to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~
Viktor E. Frankl
313. “Always find time for the things that make you feel happy to be alive.” ~
Unknown
314. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
~ Maya Angelou
315. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ~
Oscar Wilde
316. “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you
have.” ~ Robert Holden
317. “You have to make it sink deep into you that you are the source of your
misery, you are the source of your joy, nobody else, nobody else at all, nothing
else at all but you.” ~ Sadhguru

318. “The Older I get, the more I realize I don’t want to be around drama, conflict
or stress.I want a cozy home, good food, and to be surrounded by happy
people.” ~ Seven secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships by Don Miguel Ruiz
319. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see” – Confucius
320. “If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” ~ Ivan Nuru
321. “We try to control life to create the life we have created in our minds, and the
more we do that the more we push it away. We simply need to interact with the
world the way it is, rather than trying to change it one way or the other.” ~ Justin
Peterson
322. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can
determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for
you.” ~ Carl Sandburg
323. “It’s not the strongest species that survive nor the most intelligent,but the most
responsive to change.” ~ Charles Darwin
324. “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with
them as half as much money.” —Abigail Van Buren
325. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be
alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love and to learn.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
326. “Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.” ~ Clayton
Christensen
327. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right
twice a day.” ~ Paulo Coelho
328. “There is little difference between obstacle and opportunity; the wise are able
to turn both to their advantage.” ~ Machiavelli
329. “When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves
with pleasure.” ~ Viktor Frankl

330. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the
key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment,
and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon
331. “Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only
animal that is never satisfied.” ~ Henry George
332. “Eat to live, don’t live to eat”. ~ Benjamin franklin
333. “Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~ Hippocrates
334. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to
make life beautiful for others.” ~ Mandy Hale.
335. “To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich,
beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care.” ~ Mandy Hale.
336. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is
the secret of success.” ~ Sivananda Saraswati
337. “Our purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, at least
don’t hurt them.” ~ Dalai Lama
338. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” ~ Ronald Reagon
339. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them
never happened.” ~ Mark Twain
340. “Do your best you can until you know better, then when you know better, do
better.” ~ Maya Angelou
341. “I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad
one.” ~ Victor Frankl
342. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” ~ Seneca
343. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the
day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain

344. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Hellen Keller
345. “Neurons that fire together that wire together.” ~ Donald Hebb
346. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in
mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
347. “The road to get us to what we really need can be a very dark road. And
often, the road we least expect.” ~ Teal Swan
348. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t
have the strength.” ~ Theodore Rosevelt
349. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ~ Anne Frank
350. “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas
A. Edison
351. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor
Roosevelt
352. “Life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being perfect. It
is about being real, being humble and being kind.” ~ Unknown
353. “Your vibe attracts your tribe.” ~ Amy Lee
354. “A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the
best medicines and the best doctors.” ~ Mark Twain
355. “Life Begins Where Fear Ends” ~ Osho
356. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you
win.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
357. “You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead
in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind.
Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.” ~ Ramana
Maharshi

358. “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” ~ A
Persian proverb
359. “Depending on what they are, our habits will make us or break us. We
become what we repeatedly do.” ~ Sean Covey
360. “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas…you can stay in it all you
want but it won’t go anywhere.” ~ Michael J Herbert
361. “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.” –
Florence Shinn
362. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu
363. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human
freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose
one’s own way.” ~ Victor Frankl
364. “Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your
vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire,
all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.”~ Esther
Hicks
365. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a
depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected
visitor. . . . Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark
thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them
in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from
beyond.” ~ Rumi