Famous Inspirational Quotes, To Remember, To Think About

Read through all these inspirational quotations and let them speak to you. In this day and time; when we wear several hats at once, there's much chaos and disorder surrounding our life, and distracting us from our real goals. You will be wanting to regain some peace, clarity, motivation, and inspiration.

Sometimes, it's simply not possible to hear of inspiring quotes from people living in our modern society. Instead, negativity prevail the air. People complain,and people moan, constantly, about their lives, and the state of the world. And we all need desperately to hear of some positive and inspirational messages.

Time passes very quickly, but you may find the courage, within you, to go after your desires. And when the the time comes for you to look back and your life, may you be deeply grateful that you've led a life that has purpose and meaning to you, as Mother Nature intended.

Famous quotations are popular because they contain great sayings. Here's a collection of famous quotes collected from great teachers and famous persons from different time periods.

Usually, quotes by famous people can be influential. Many of these quotes merit attention; therefore they continue to be used and re-quoted by various sources throughout the years.

The most meaningful and powerful quote there is, was, or ever will be was spoken through the mouth of a supposed fool.

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

--Shakespeare-Hamlet

Some hae meat and canna eat,

And some wad eat that want it;

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

And sae the Lord be thankit.

--Robert Burns

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing

--Oscar Wilde

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao-tzu

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. but above all, try something.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

--Thomas Edison

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always aim at complete harmony, of thought ,and word, and deed. Always aim at purity in your thought and everything will be well.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

--Abraham Lincoln

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them again on your way down.

--Jimmy Durante

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new will-power, with an advanced experience; that shall explain, and overlook the old.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do What you can, with what you have, where you are.

--Theodore Roosevelt

Do not say you you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson , and Albert Einstein.

--H. Jackson Brown

Even if you're on the right track, You'll get run over if you just sit there.

--Will Rogers

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

--Alfred North Whitehead

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

--Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living,

 By what we get;

But we make a life,

By what we give.

--Winston Churchill

If you have bult castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

--Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what ou desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.

--George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--Aristotle

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

--Walt Disney

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

--Mark twain

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

--Confucius

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

--Aristotle

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.

--Oscar Wilde

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide our sources.

--Albert Einstein

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

--Samuel Johnson

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics run it, and are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

--Bertrand Russell

While we are postponing, life speeds by.--Seneca

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Ever day we ought to review our direction and purpose, saying to ourselves; This day let me make a sound beginning, for  make a sound beginning, for what we do hitherto is naught.
--Thomas A. Kempis

A man's/woman's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
--Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee can't fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that; so it goes on flying anyway.
--Mary Kay Ash

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
--Henry David Thoreau

Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature sympathise with a friend's success.
--Oscar Wilde

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
--Marian Anderson

This above all else: To thine own self be true.
--Shakespeare

Beauty, truth, friendship love, creation--these are great values of life. We can't prove them, or truly explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
--Jesse Herman Holmes

Character may be manifested in the  great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
--Philips Brooks


Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as faaar as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember you  can achieve.
--Mary Kay Ash

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
--Dr. Dale Turner

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
--Voltaire

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
--David Seabury

Everyond who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
--Nolan Bushnell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and  try to follow where they lead.
--Louisa May Alcott

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
--Will Rogers

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
--Margaret B. Runbeck

Happy are those that dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
--Leon J. Suenes

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
--Golda Meir

Right or wrong, success or failure, good or evil, exist only in the eyes of the beholder. One Man's heaven is another Man's Hell.
--Author Unknown

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
--Agatha Christie

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
--Louisa May Alcott

I've learned from experience, that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.
--Martha Washington

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
--Jonathan Winters

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
--Mary Pickford

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivness, selfishness, and fears.
--Glenn Clark

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
--Jonathan Winters

My advice to all aspiring actors and performers:Never act or perform, simply be.
--Spenser Tracy

In every person who comes near you, look for what is good, and strong; honour that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off lide dead leaves when their time comes.
--John Ruskin

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
--James Anthony Froude

Practise does not make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.
--Author Unknown

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
--Mabel Newcomber

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
--Scott Adams

He that would pass his declining years with honour and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he was once young.
--Joseph Addison

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
--Aeschylus

I sit beside my lonely fire, and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember, or courage to forget.
--Charles Hamilton Aide

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done; that will not be done unless you do it.
--Charles L. Allen

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is infinite. This is a very comforting thought-particulary for people who can never remember where they have left things.
--Woody Allen

Remember: it is ten times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.
--Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Remember this,-that very little is needed to make a happy life
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,-there, if one must speak out, the real man.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The general root of a superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
--Sir Francis Bacon

Always remember that striving and struggle always precede  success, even in the dictionary.
--Sarah Ban Breathable

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
--Maurice Beattie

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think--than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
--Bill Beatie

Every young man would do well to remember that all successfull business stands on the foundation of morality.
--Henry Ward  Beecher

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
--(Enogh) Arnold  Bennett

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.

--Antoine de Saint Exupery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

--William James

Whatever you create in your life; you must first create in your imagination.

The human brain can only act on the positive; it is incapable of acting on the expectation of a negative result. For example, a criminal never plans to fail, or get caught; he or she looks only at the positive, or wanted result of their deed.