List Of 100 Inspirational Quotes by Famous People & Celebrities:

#1 Albert Camus

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

#2 Babe Ruth

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

#3 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

#4 Anne Frank

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”

#5 Andrew Jackson

“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

#6 Amal Clooney

“Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.”

#7 Albert Einstein

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

#8 Baba Hari Das

“Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.”

#9 Barack Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

#10 Britney Spears

“Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don’t care what people think and just go for it.”

#11 Christopher Columbus

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

#12 Carol Burnett

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”

#13 Catherine Pulsifer

“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.”

#14 Carl Bard

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

#15 Cristiano Ronaldo

“We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.”

#16 Denzel Washington

“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”

#17 Dhar Mann

“Don’t wait for a special day because each day you have is special.”

#18 Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

#19 Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

#20 Ernest Hemingway

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

#21 Elana K. Arnold

“Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”

#22 Norman Vaughan

“Dream big and dare to fail.”

#23 Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

#24 Napoleon Hill

“The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.”

#25 George Washington

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

#26 Maya Angelou

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”

#27 Graham Greene

“Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.”

#28 Helen Keller

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

#29 Harry S Truman

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

#30 Michael Jordan

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

#31 Audre Lorde

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

#32 Audrey Hepburn

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'”

#33 Bruce Lee

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

#34 John Lennon

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

#35 Lee Kuan Yew

“If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.”

#36 Henry Ford

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”

#37 Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

#38 Alicia Keys

“No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.”

#39 Liz Smith

“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

#40 Lucille Ball

“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

#41 Kanye West

“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness.”

#42 George Eliot

“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”

#43 Kobe Bryant

“I want to learn how to become the best basketball player in the world. And if I’m going to learn that, I gotta learn from the best.”

#44 Jack Ma

“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”

#45 J.P. Morgan

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”

#46 Marilyn Monroe

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

#47 Ryan Gosling

“I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.”

#48 Queen Elizabeth II

“The courageous do not lie down and accept defeat. Instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.”

#49 Oprah Winfrey

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

#50 Wayne Gretzky

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

#51 Jim Rohn

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”

#52 Mahatma Gandhi

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

#53 Mary Engelbreit

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

#54 Eminem

“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”

#55 Woody Allen

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

#56 James Cameron

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”

#57 Max Muller

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

#58 Mark Twain

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

#59 Jane Fonda

“It’s never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

#60 Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

#61 Michelle Obama

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”

#62 Frank Sinatra

“The best revenge is massive success.”

#63 Dalai Lama

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

#64 Florence Nightingale

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

#65 Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

#66 Muhammad Ali

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

#67 Ellen DeGeneres

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

#68 Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

#69 Paulo Coelho

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

#70 Dolly Parton

“If you’re feeling low, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.”

#71 Paul Henderson

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.”

#72 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

#73 Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

#74 Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

#75 Roy T. Bennett

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

#76 Socrates

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

#77 Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new.”

#78 Steve Jobs

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

#79 Victor Hugo

“There is nothing more powerful in the world than the idea that came in time.”

#80 Wayne Dyer

“Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”

#81 Walt Disney

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

#82 Will Smith

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”

#83 Lao Tzu

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

#84 Sheryl Sandberg

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”

#85 Duke Ellington

“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.”

#86 Raven Symone

“Don’t spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.”

#87 Jim Ryun

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

#88 Abigail Adams

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

#89 Daniel Radcliffe

“It’s important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.”

#90 Geena Davis

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”

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#91 Diana Ross

“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”

#92 David Ogilvy

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

#93 Jon Hamm

“Don’t be afraid to fail. It’s not the end of the world and in many ways it’s the first step toward learning something better and getting better at it.”

#94 Salvador Dali

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”

#95 George Clooney

“The only failure is not to try.”

#96 Bill Cosby

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

#97 Richard Branson

“If you’re hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you’ve given it your absolute best, it’s time to move forward.”

#98 Sylvia Plath

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

#99 Nikki Giovanni

“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”

#100 Arianna Huffington

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

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