Inspirational Quotes

Inspiration is personal — what lights a fire in one person barely registers with another. This collection casts a wide net, gathering words that have moved people to action, to tears, to changed minds, and occasionally to changed lives.

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

Theodore Roosevelt

More Inspirational Quotes

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

John Muir

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

Victor Hugo

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

Ronald Reagan

“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”

Sylvester Stallone

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

Plato

“One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.”

Herman Cain

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

Andre Gide

“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”

Thomas Merton

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