50 Inspirational Quotes To Make Your Day

If you are feeling unsure, without direction or un-inspirational (is that a word?) then look here for some quotes to help change your thinking. Quotes for me are those short reading moments of inspiration that can change the view of how I am thinking. Especially if my thinking is not in a manner of feeling or being positive. For some it will inspire the next hour, for others it may set them on a life long journey to create change. You see quotes everywhere now, especially on social media, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook. Yet a good quote can make a difference to your mood and to your day being productive. Here are 50 quotes to help inspire your day, or your lifetime.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal – Henry Ford

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success – Malcolm X

Happiness is a state of activity – Aristotle

Don’t judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed – Carl Jung

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done – Bruce Lee

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants – Isaac Newton

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy – Tony Robbins

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be – Zig Ziglar

Be yourself everyone else is already taken – Oscar Wilde

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything- Mark Twain

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas Edison

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it – Charles Swindoll

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything – Gordon A Eadie

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated – Confucious

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down – Charles F Kettering

Action is the foundational key to all success – Pablo Picasso

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open – Rose Lane

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one – C. S. Lewis

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be – Douglas Adams

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living – Dr Seuss

What you do has far greater impact than what you say – Steven Covey

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage – Lao Tzu

Everything you can imagine is real – Pablo Picasso

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed – Michael Jordan

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you – Dale Carnegie

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed – Ray Goforth

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work – Stephen King

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go – Hermann Hesse

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials – Lin Yutang

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not – Virgil Thompson

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens – Woody Allen

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do – Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one – Elbert Hubbard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority – Kenneth Blanchard

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (From the book DUNE) Frank Herbert

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere – Albert Einstein

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

When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity – John F Kennedy

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you – Joyce Meyer

A husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself – Voltaire

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much – Robert Louis Stevenson

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century – Marshall McLuhan

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings – Eric Hoffer

The future will be better tomorrow – Dan Quayle

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract – Robert Heinlein

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it – Pablo Picasso

To infinity, and beyond – Buzz Lightyear