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Inspiration is a powerful force that drives creativity, innovation, and personal growth. Throughout history, countless individuals have shared their thoughts on what it means to be inspired and how it fuels action. This collection of quotes highlights the many ways inspiration shapes our lives and encourages us to dream, create, and push beyond our limits.   ◀ Back
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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Topic: Inspirational
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Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- Jim Collins
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Topic: Inspirational
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You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Topic: Inspirational
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You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
- Renee Carlino
Sweet Thing
Topic: Inspirational
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Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
- Lewis Black
Me of Little Faith
Topic: Inspirational
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When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Inspirational
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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Topic: Inspirational, Life
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Topic: Inspirational
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she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
Topic: Inspirational
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
- Dante Alighieri
Topic: Inspirational
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There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
- Frank Serafini
Topic: Inspirational
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I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
- Joan of Arc
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
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I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.
Topic: Inspirational
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Why We Can't Wait
Topic: Inspirational, Life
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Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.
Topic: Inspirational
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I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Inspirational
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
- Rita Mae Brown
Hiss of Death
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.
Topic: Inspirational
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
- Colette
Topic: Inspirational
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when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
- Why The Lucky Stiff
Topic: Inspirational
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God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Topic: Inspirational
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
- Homer
The Odyssey
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your opinion is not my reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- Jim Collins
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
- Renee Carlino
Sweet Thing
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
- Lewis Black
Me of Little Faith
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
- Dante Alighieri
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
- Frank Serafini
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
- Joan of Arc
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Why We Can't Wait
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
- Rita Mae Brown
Hiss of Death
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
- Colette
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
- Why The Lucky Stiff
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
- Homer
The Odyssey
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your opinion is not my reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- Jim Collins
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
- Renee Carlino
Sweet Thing
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
- Lewis Black
Me of Little Faith
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
- Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
- Dante Alighieri
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
- Frank Serafini
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
- Joan of Arc
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Why We Can't Wait
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
- Rita Mae Brown
Hiss of Death
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
- Colette
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
- Why The Lucky Stiff
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
- Homer
The Odyssey
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Topic: Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your opinion is not my reality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Topic: Inspirational, Motivational
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