Inspiration Quotes Quotes

Search constantly for people, places, things, pictures, sounds, or scents that inspire you. Your most important responsibility is to keep yourself inspired always.

~ Mensah Oteh

Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and create it?

~ Mensah Oteh

Success starts with a good plan. To have it, you have to plan it.

~ Mensah Oteh

Your ability to support your plans with a great strategy is the master skill for success.

~ Mensah Oteh

Planning your life creates within you a feeling of control which produces self-confidence, self-responsibility and self-assurance.

~ Mensah Oteh

Without a good plan, you might fall short of reaching your dreams and goals.

~ Mensah Oteh

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

~ Mensah Oteh

Planning gives you the opportunity to identify the tasks that will add the most value to attaining your outcomes.

~ Mensah Oteh

Planning eliminates urgency by allowing you to bring your future into the present.

~ Mensah Oteh

The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance.

~ Mensah Oteh

Never start the day until you already have it designed, finished and documented.

~ Mensah Oteh

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rest as if you’ll live forever, work as if you’ll die today.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It can’t be done,” they told the caterpillar. “It can,” replied the butterfly.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

~ Suzy Kassem

The sooner we accept the situation, the sooner we can work on course-correction.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from stars; when dark times try to dull your sparkle, shine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes we take leaps of faith, and sometimes we take tiny steps. Even the tiniest step can require a lot of courage. Like climbing out of denial and admitting my real need for help. Like trusting someone who said I wouldn’t die from eating a bowl of pasta, and taking another bite. Like reaching for a pen or a yoga mat when what I really wanted to do was reach for a cookie. Like searching for a smile in my heart when my mind was busy screaming about how sad and serious I should be.

~ Shannon Kopp

Because the truth is, while bulimia is a devastating illness I would wish upon no one, it has taught me about the fragility of life and the vital need for compassion. Today, I’m quick to love and throw my arms around any girl who has ever stared at a puddle of her own vomit and questioned the point of her life. Or who has ever let a Photoshopped image on a glossy magazine preach to her about her own self-worth, her own beauty. Or who has ever been afraid to face the pain and suffering, within and outside of herself.Today, I’m quick to love.

~ Shannon Kopp

So many nights, I stared out at the inky black ocean, believing that if I could only learn how to eat again and keep my hands out of my throat, that would be enough. I prayed hard and desperately to God and the sun and the moon and the ocean and the universe and every shelter dog I’d ever met, as if they were all genies, that I wouldn’t ask for anything more.But perhaps God isn’t a collection of genies, and perhaps it’s okay to hope for more than relief. To hope big. To hope for Sunny’s limitless capacity to love.

~ Shannon Kopp

When I was around Sunny, there was no time to dream about some easier, prettier, more comprehensible, less fucked-up existence. Now was all we had: Sunny lifting her eyes to meet mine. Cupping water in my own hands to rinse the blood off her head. Sunny’s tongue on my nose, her tail thudding on my leg. The reach of my hand across her spine. The words of comfort and rage and fear and sadness and hope that I spoke only in her presence.

~ Shannon Kopp

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite others who tried to keep them down, must always be very proud of their achievements. They must never forget the struggles they went through, because they are a living example to those who wander in darkness, a staunch reminder that light is within reach if they can find the strength and determination to keep going.

~ Sarah Brownlee

The limits are pushed by our resolve to succeed beyond tradition.

~ Dallas Palmer

When you break the promises, you loose the credibility. When you loose the credibility, you loose the trust. So, keep your promises, because trust is the foundation of soulfully inspired life.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Greatness is inspiring others to be their best.

~ Ken Poirot

Great goals always come from inspiration.

~ Hina Hashmi

Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

~ Chris Campanioni

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

~ Sharon Law Tucker