My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

  • “Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.”Voltaire
  • “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”Carl Gustav Jung
  • “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”Beverly Sills
  • “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”Zig Ziglar
  • “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”Herbert Bayard Swope
  • “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”Elbert Hubbard
  • “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”Ruth Gordon

  • “It takes a great man to be a good listener.”Calvin Coolidge

  • “Well done is better than well said.”Benjamin Franklin
  • “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”Theodore Roosevelt
  • “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”Sir Winston Churchill
  • ”Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”W.H. Auden
    • “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”Friedrich Nietszche
    • “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.”Booker T. Washington
    • “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”Leymah Gbowee
    • “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.”Judy Garland
    • “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”Vernon Law
    • “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”Maya Angelou
    • “In the fields of observation, chance favors on the prepared mind.”Louis Pasteur
    • “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”Samuel Johnson
    • “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”Walt Whitman

    • “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”Roger Staubach

    • “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”Michael Jordan

    • “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”Lou Holtz

    • “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”Rosalynn Carter
    • “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”Tyron Edwards
    • “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”Lois McMaster Bujold