Inspirational Quotes About Life
“The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life’s destruction.”
– Inayat Khan
“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.”
– Montel
“The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up and fight for what you believe in.”
– Dan Quayle
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
– Movie Quote from ‘Rocky”
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
– Babatunde Olatunji
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Thurman
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
– Author Unknown
“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.”
– Lou Erickso
Inspirational Quotes For Women
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”
– Diane Mariechild
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.”
– Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“Women have to harness their power; it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.”
– Cher
“Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.”
– Emma Bunton
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’. They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes’.”
– Clare Boothe Luce
“Women are the real architects of society.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.”
– Bella Abzug
“Woman are like modern paintings. You can’t enjoy them, if you try to understand them.”
– Freddie Mercury
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
– James Thurber
“An actress can only play a woman. I’m an actor, I can play anything.”
– Whoopi Goldberg
“Women are always beautiful.”
– Ville Valo
Inspirational Quotes For Difficult Times
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
– Henry Ford
“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.”
– John Wooden
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
– Mark Twain
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– J.K. Rowling