Inspirational Quotes

Shake those stars from your hair, pretty Moonchild. It's time to dance with the noonday sun!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

~ Megan Abbott

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

~ Jeannette Walls

To be original is not creating your own idea, it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

~ Kaela Marooney

Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design... just the way you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

~ Paulo Coelho

My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

~ Kelly Clarkson

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

~ Steve Maraboli

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

~ Barack Obama

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

~ Mark Lawrence

Never mind the rule, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all,' because that's not the route to take. Instead, look into the mirror and say those things to yourself. Then yell those things at yourself. And multiply how much that hurts by 10. And decide, should I still say these things? And walk away.

~ Rachel Eovacious

You cannot let a fear of failure, or a fear of comparison, or a fear of judgement stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure, you cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss. You must go out and take these risk. … Do what’s uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would want to fail. Fail, pick yourself up and fail again. Because without this struggle, what is your success anyway?

~ Charlie Day

The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There are thoughts that don’t let you sleep in the darkness of nights. Thoughts of life, love, circumstances and dreams. Interestingly, these thoughts don’t disappear when you have your eyes opened in the day ahead. Whether you live greatly or not is determined by these thoughts.

~ Taranpreet Singh

Scars can mark you for greatness.

~ Amy Neftzger

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it’s only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That’s okay. Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It’s the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It’s the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You’ll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity.

~ A.j. Compton

Great women aren't born great, they become great.

~ Sabrina Newby

Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

~ Biz Stone

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - Your not getting a rematch and Rocky says I don't want one.I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

~ Johna Passaro

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

~ George R.r. Martin

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

~ Steve Maraboli

Impossible is nothing.

~ Muhammad Ali

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

~ Hayley Williams

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

~ Omega Maverick

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

~ Mel Odom

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

~ T.m. Brenner

The easy truth is as much a lie as any.

~ Sasha Martin

I'd rather die than live without passion.

~ Jeon Jungkook

I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.

~ Abeer Allan

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

~ Megan Jenna

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

~ Jesus

A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict.

~ Victor Dunsin

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. 

~ Stefan Emunds

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

The great man will come when all of us are feeling great, not when all of us are feeling small. He will ride in at some splendid moment when we all feel that we could do without him.We are then able to answer in some manner the question, Why have we no great men? We have no great men chiefly because we are always looking for them. We are connoisseurs of greatness, and connoisseurs can never be great; we are fastidious, that is, we are small.When Diogenes went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, I am afraid he had very little time to be honest himself And when anybody goes about on his hands and knees looking for a great man to worship, he is making sure that one man at any rate shall not be great.Now, the error of Diogenes is evident. The error of Diogenes lay in the fact that he omitted to notice that every man is both an honest man and a dishonest man. Diogenes looked for his honest man inside every crypt and cavern; but he never thought of looking inside the thief.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

~ Catherine Doyle